Hard disk boot sequence problem

[Jeff Vian]

Seth Bardash wrote:

>I am trying to build a disk duplicator. Boot disk is SCSI. Only
>want to duplicate ide disks. 
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>When FC1 is installed (or any redhat for that matter) on the SCSI
>boot disk and I have another RH based bootdisk installed on the
>same system - either on a 3ware card or on the motherboard IDE
>ports, FC1 finds the other /boot partition and tries to decide
>between the boot disk and the other disk that has an FC1 image on
>it. This confuses the system while booting and causes it not to
>mount any /boot partition.
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This is likely a problem with using labels in the fstab for mounting.  2 
or more disks with the same label confuse the mount procedure.

If you change those entries to use the /dev/<device> type entry it 
should fix this confusion.

>How can I stop the probing of ide disks at boot time but be able
>to access them later? noprobe=idex causes the system to not probe
>the device and therefore not see the device after boot. Is there a
>way to reprobe???? I have the motherboard set to only boot from
>SCSI but this does not stop FC1 from probing all devices during
>boot up.
>
>The only thing I can think of to stop whatever utility is causing
>the probing at boot is to make a new kernel that will load the ide
>drivers as modules and build in the scsi support. But I don't
>think this will prevent the probing at boot time.
>
>Loading SUSE linux on the SCSI disk prevents all this but I would
>prefer to keep this machine FC1.
>
>Any suggestions would be helpful.
>
>Seth Bardash
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