Bug 55563

Summary:	usb-storage and SCSI only systems
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ian Prowell <rhbug>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Ian Prowell 2001-11-02 01:09:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
When installing RedHat 7.2 on a machine with only SCSI hard drives and a
usb-storage unit is plugged in the installer allocates sda to the
usb-storage unit.  The simple work around is to reinstall the OS without
the usb-storage unit plugged in.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Setup a SCSI only system with a usb-storage device
2.  Boot off a SCSI CD-ROM
3.  Step through the normal install procedure
4.  The hard drive that would normally be sda becomes sdb due to the
usb-storage device.
	

Actual Results:  The system would not boot because /etc/fstab had bad
values.  Also GRUB did not have the right configuration.

Expected Results:  sda should be consistant between the installer and the
actual boot.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-11-02 21:05:57 UTC

FYI, there is a boot disk which works around this problem at
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/usbstoragedisk/.

This disk changes things so that we remove the usb-storage driver before loading
any other SCSI drivers and also adds a "nousbstorage" flag which can be passed
on the syslinux prompt to disable loading the usb-storage module altogether.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-11-03 18:28:24 UTC

Does the updates disk fix the problem?

Comment 3 Ian Prowell 2001-11-03 19:41:09 UTC

I already finished installing RedHat 7.2 on the only workstation I have that
only has SCSI.  I assume the provided boot disk solves the problem.  Just wanted
to make sure that this got into the install documentation or was solved by an
update.

Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-11-06 21:38:58 UTC

Ok.  This problem should not appear in future releases.  Thanks for your report.