Booting/Installing a PE2950 from EMC SAN disk

[Mukarram Syed]

Hi,

Any suggestions would be appreciated on this Subject of Installing/Booting a
PE2950 from EMC SAN disk:

 

I have been using Kickstart to install RedHat Linux on local disks and
booting from them.  But a requirement arose in our department to install
Linux on a SAN disk which I have never done before.

We will be using Emulex Card with lpfc drivers.  How could one incorporate
loading the lpfc driver upon bootup so that it could recognize the SAN disk
and install OS on this.  Should I rebuild the kernel or the initrd file to
load the lpfc drivers?  If yes, how?

Which partitions will it use to install the OS (sda/sdb or something else)?

 

Please advice.

 

I also posted this on the Kickstart mailing list, but did not get any
response since my post.

 

Thanks Much in advance

 

-Mukarram.

 

 

 

Mukarram Syed

Unix Systems Administrator, 

Administrative Services, Stanford University

340 Panama Street, 

Godzilla Building,

Stanford, CA 94305 MC 2226.

Phone: 650-736-7647

Cell: 408-480-8841

Email:  <mailto:muksyed at stanford.edu> muksyed at stanford.edu

 

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