Making Debian ignore a drive

[Thomas Charron]

On 4/11/07, Kenneth E. Lussier <klussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:18 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> > IPMI can usually be disabled in the BIOS.  If FC5 installs "correctly"
> > you might want to see how they're figuring it out, or ask on the FC
> > forums/mailinglists, etc.
> I don't want to disable IPMI. I need IPMI to continue to work. I just
> need the Debian installer to ignore any drive that isn't directly on the
> SCSI bus. I'll ask around on the FC lists and see if they can shed some
> light on it.

  Call me silly, but isn't IPMI connected to the SCSI backplane?
Pretty sure it had a direct connection to it.  Was FC possibly just
not loading the IPMI modules at all?  Or perhaps, some of them but not
others?  A possible way to diagnose this is to just compare the kernel
debug messages between the two when they boot up.

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-- Thomas