Hi Marc, I wont' give you a guarantee but I believe, you can change the order of drives either in Dell's BIOS or in BMC-Settings.
Regards, Andreas -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Marc Haber [mailto:mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de] Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011 13:47 An: Debian Bug Tracking System Betreff: Bug#645757: misdetects Dell RAC as hard disk Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Tags: d-i squeeze Hi, we are deploying Debian on a large number of servers of different types. One of our widely used server types is the Dell PowerEdge 1950 which is equipped with a RAC. The Debian Installer detects the RAC as a hard disk and assigns it /dev/sda. This, in turn, makes the installer choke since it tries installing to /dev/sda first. The culprit here might be our partman early_command: d-i partman/early_command \ string disk=$(list-devices disk | head -n1); \ vgremove -f our-default-vg-name; \ for part in $(list-devices partition | grep $disk );do dd if=/dev/zero of=$part bs=1024k count=16; done; \ dd if=/dev/zero of=$disk bs=1024k count=16; \ debconf-set partman-auto/disk "$disk" Is "list-devices disk" supposed to list a removable USB disk in the first place? If not, this is a bug which should be fixed. If "list-devices disk" showing the RAC is a feature, how do you suggest handling this case while not breaking the install process for servers that don't have a RAC and where the build-in hard disk _is_ in fact /dev/sda? Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111018114633.1167.10034.report...@torres.zugschlus.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/B24F5E6925C28F49A2EDEB173CBB2C96017CE6FA7D@SFMEXCCREX.sfdrs.local
