disable hba detection during install?

[J. Epperson]

On Tue, February 5, 2008 14:53, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to prevent hba's (qlogic) being detected during an
> install of RHEL4 ?
>
> I have tried to use noprobe but this causes everything else to be
> ignored and so prevents my install!! Seems that having the hba's in
> there is throwing off the disk ordering and so causes the box to not
> boot after installation.
>
> Any ideas?

What's happening to you may be related to a Qlogic container being
presented as sda on reboot, with the internal disk shoved to sdb (or
lower).  You can fix  that by moving the qlogic alias line below the one
for the internal adapter in modprobe.conf and remaking the initrd.  I've
done this by booting rescue and chrooting to sysimage, but you can
possibly drop to a console prompt at the end of the install and accomplish
that.