[Novalug] Kickstart Disk Assignment

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

  On 9/30/2010 8:29 PM, Peter Larsen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:39 -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>
>> My machine has one internal SATA drive, and I am connecting a USB drive
>> (Western Digital passport) to it.
>>
>> Under CentOS 5.5, it calls the internal SATA sda and the external USB sdb
>> Under Fedora 13,  it calls the internal SATA sdb and the external USB sda
> The same box or two different boxes?
Same box.
>> Of course, I want to build the USB drive to actually come up as sda; I
>> will select that drive from the Boot Menu.
> Since it's two different distros they may very well have different udev
> rules to apply.
Yes, but they are both "Red Hat". So what changed and why? I did 
speculate a bit on why...maybe someone knows for sure.
>   There is an option on the "part" parameter called
> "onbiosdisk". You may want to use that to bypass what the udev thinks
> about the device sequencing?
Onbiosdisk is mentioned in the docs, but never specified. What are they 
and how would I find out what values to use?

And no, I didn't change the BIOS settings in between installs! FWIW, I 
used the grub on the SATA drive to boot the anaconda, and it didn't seem 
to matter which drive I booted from. Here are two grub stanzas I used 
for that:

title Fedora 13 Install from SATA disk
root (hd0,0)
kernel /Fedora/13/i386/isolinux/vmlinuz askmethod
initrd   /Fedora/13/i386/isolinux/initrd.img

title Fedora 13 Install from USB disk
root (hd1,0)
kernel /fc13/isolinux/vmlinuz askmethod
initrd   /fc13/isolinux/initrd.img

Note that the pathnames are different so I know exactly which disk 
anaconda is coming from.

At the same level with the isolinux directory is the DVD.iso file and 
the images directory.

JIM