I am trying to build a disk duplicator. Boot disk is SCSI. Only want to duplicate ide disks. When FC1 is installed (or any redhat for that matter) on the SCSI boot disk and I have another RH based bootdisk installed on the same system - either on a 3ware card or on the motherboard IDE ports, FC1 finds the other /boot partition and tries to decide between the boot disk and the other disk that has an FC1 image on it. This confuses the system while booting and causes it not to mount any /boot partition. How can I stop the probing of ide disks at boot time but be able to access them later? noprobe=idex causes the system to not probe the device and therefore not see the device after boot. Is there a way to reprobe???? I have the motherboard set to only boot from SCSI but this does not stop FC1 from probing all devices during boot up. The only thing I can think of to stop whatever utility is causing the probing at boot is to make a new kernel that will load the ide drivers as modules and build in the scsi support. But I don't think this will prevent the probing at boot time. Loading SUSE linux on the SCSI disk prevents all this but I would prefer to keep this machine FC1. Any suggestions would be helpful. Seth Bardash Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921 http://www.integratedsolutions.org Phone: 719-495-5866 Fax: 719-495-5870 Supplier of AMD, Intel and SPARC Servers and Systems running Windows, Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.
