CentOS 4 installer sees /dev/sda, but after boot it's /dev/sdb

[jeff nichols]

I've seen the virtual cdrom take /dev/sda on 9th gen servers - do you have a DRAC5?




> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Ruset" <ben.ruset at gmail.com>
> To: "Jeff Larsen" <jlar310 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: CentOS 4 installer sees /dev/sda, but after boot it's /dev/sdb
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:20:00 -0400
> 
> 
> Do a fdisk -l and it will tell you what it thinks /dev/sda is.
> 
> Jeff Larsen wrote:
> > PE 2950, SAS onboard RAID, 2 RAID 1 arrays
> >
> > bash-3.00# ls -l /dev/sd*
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  0 Apr 29 05:15 /dev/sda
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 16 Apr 29 05:15 /dev/sdb
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 17 Apr 29 05:15 /dev/sdb1
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 18 Apr 29 05:15 /dev/sdb2
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 19 Apr 29 05:15 /dev/sdb3
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 32 Apr 29 05:15 /dev/sdc
> >
> >
> > bash-3.00# fdisk /dev/sda
> >
> > Unable to open /dev/sda
> >
> > What's the deal?
> >
> 
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