Bug 76882

Summary:	(SCSI) Use EDID to make the boot scsi controller the first one
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <atems>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	7.3	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-28 18:07:00 UTC

Description of Problem: On a Dell PowerEdge server with an onboard Adaptec SCSI
adapter and a Symbios add-on SCSI adapter, the Symbios is identified as the
primary and the Adaptec as the secondary, both during installation and
afterward. This causes a disk on the external bus, from which the system cannot
be made to boot, to be assigned as /dev/sda, and the boot loader is installed
there.

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How Reproducible: On this system, 100%. However I realise that this is highly
dependent on hardware configuration.


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Comment 1 Alan Cox 2003-06-08 19:28:17 UTC

This is dependant on the order the modules are loaded. The boot volume
identification can be done by EDID and that facility is in various development
kernels.

Turning this into an RFE

Comment 2 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:40:08 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/