disable hba detection during install?

[J. Epperson]

On Tue, February 5, 2008 16:15, J. Epperson wrote:
> 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.
>

Oops.  Not sure that moving the line was what solved it:  I also have the
PERC as scsi_hostadapter1 and qlogic numbered higher.  Doing both is
logical.