Seth Bardash wrote:
I am trying to build a disk duplicator. Boot disk is SCSI. OnlyThis is likely a problem with using labels in the fstab for mounting. 2 or more disks with the same label confuse the mount procedure.
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.
If you change those entries to use the /dev/<device> type entry it should fix this confusion.
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
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