> From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Vian > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:48 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Hard disk boot sequence problem > > Seth Bardash wrote: > > >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. > > > > > This is likely a problem with using labels in the fstab for > mounting. 2 > or more disks with the same label confuse the mount procedure. > > 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. > > > > > >Any suggestions would be helpful. > > > >Seth Bardash > > > > -- Tried this - Does not work System config: Opteron 146, 1G memory, Asus SK8N MB, 9G SCSI disk on a 53c875 LSI card - /dev/sda: boot disk, /dev/hda - source disk to copy , SIIG dual IDE PCI card for ide2 and ide3 (hde - hdh) Promise TX2 for ide4 and ide5 (hdi - hdl). Same thing occurs on a single and dual XP/MP machine with a simialr config. Same thing occurs even if the system is set to boot into single user mode, the system still tries to mount multiple /boot partitions and then gives up. Was wondering if any of the system kernel init people out there have any idea how kudzu or the rc.d/rc.xxx files go through and sequence the disk init functions so I can change this to stop it. I was going to try to build a kernel with ide drivers as modules and then noprobe all the ide devices so I can modprobe them later???? Has anyone else run into this problem?? Maybe if you set up your machine to boot multiple versions of FC1 ? IE: FC1 i386 on one disk and FC1 x86_64 on the second disk??? Seth
