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Driver Installation 31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Installation and Disk Enumeration
The operating system may not boot when Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is
installed on a system that has a serial-attached SAS 6i/R controller connected
to more than two hard drives. The issue occurs when the hard drives are
configured with more than one RAID configuration or when one RAID
volume along with one or two individual disks are connected to the controller.
In this scenario, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installer installs the Grand
Unified Bootloader (GRUB) to the incorrect hard drive. To avoid this issue,
complete the following steps during the operating system installation:
1
Insert the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 media and proceed through the
installation screens to the
Drive Selection screen.
2 Select Review and Modify Partition Layout .
3 Click Next . Proceed through the installation screens to the GRUB location
screen and select the
Configure Advanced Bootloader Options tab.
4 Click Next .
5 Select Change Driver Order .
6 In the Disk Order window, change the disks to the following order:
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
(if present)
/dev/sda
7 Click OK and then continue with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
installation.
Installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Using the Driver Update
Diskette
NOTE: Refer to "Creating a Driver Diskette" on page 29 for information about
creating a driver diskette.
To install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 9 or 10) using the DUD:
1
Insert the appropriate SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 9 or 10)
Service Pack media in the system.
2 Select < F5 > for the driver update disk.
NOTE: Press <F5> for SLES 10 installation and <F6> for SLES 9 installation as
shown on screen.
3 Select Installation from the menu.
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