[svlug] Disabling hardware probling in kickstart

[Isaiah Weiner]

Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood.  However, you could force a bogus
selection and see where that takes you.

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:14, Isaiah Weiner wrote:
> You can use the kickstart 'device' directive to force a device to use a
> particular driver.  It's not the same as 'don't autoload' but it should
> do the job.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
> 
> On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 21:46, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > So, I have few quickstart configs working, and I know about most of the
> > bugs and workarounds.
> > 
> > However I have a new problem I hadn't encountered yet.
> > I'm installing RH 7.3 on a penguin computing 2U (yeah, don't laugh, I didn't
> > buy it) and it shipped with a hardware raid card.
> > The problem is that the piece of crap crashes any version of linux as soon
> > as linux loads the AIC driver.
> > The MB is an intel 440GX with dual onboard adaptec SCSI, I know those boards
> > well since they're the same than VA used to ship.
> > 
> > I'm guessing that this was a motherboard with faulty SCSI and it was shipped
> > with a Raid card (or the SCSI went bad by itself although it was never used)
> > which is all fine and dandy until you try to reload linux.
> > 
> > I know I can tell the RH install not to autoload modules, but I don't really
> > want to do an normal install when I have a custom kickstart config
> > 
> > Hence the  question: can  you configure  kickstart to  not autoprobe  a SCSI
> > module (short of hacking the image that  is pulled over the net and removing
> > the aic module)?
> > (selecting interactive doesn't work, it loads the modules before dropping
> > into interactive)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Marc
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