Bug 57733

Summary:	kickstart misplaces mbr in case of combined SCSI/IDE disk systems
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Paul Arendsen <arends>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i686
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Description Paul Arendsen 2001-12-20 13:50:44 UTC

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Description of problem:
I use kickstart to install several  (>20) linux machines over the network.
Having systems with a SCSI system disk and several IDE data disks I want
the SCSI disk to be the one to boot from. The kickstart script CAN NOT know
however what assignments I made in the BIOS (first SCSI or first ATA), ergo
it has to ask the user where to put the MBR. Instead it assumes that if a
/dev/hda exisit that it must place the MBR there. Using lilo as bootloader
one gets a message of a unrecognizable disk (ox82) after which it pauses in
RH7.1. In this pause you can change the lilo.conf file accordingly. In
RH7.2 it does not pause. 
This behaviour is not specific 7.2, nor is it a lilo bug, but since
kickstart is not choosable I put this bugreport here. 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install RH using kickstart on a machine with SCSI and IDE
2. have the BIOS to boot first from SCSI
3.
	

Actual Results:  After rebooting as part from the installation the system
hangs

Expected Results:  continuation of boot process obviously

Additional info:

Comment 1 Doug Ledford 2002-01-17 02:56:11 UTC

Changing package to anaconda since that's where kickstart functionality is
implemented.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-26 17:30:18 UTC

Deferring to future release.

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:19 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.