[Discuss] raid controller drivers

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 13:54 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 9/24/2014 1:23 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> > OK... so my question is, how do I configure the boot image to force it
> > to include the SAS raid controller driver so I can boot from a disk
> > connected to it?
> 
> If it were me, you don't. I avoid doing this because it's a pain in the
> ass thanks to the Linux kernel's broken device enumeration mechanism.
> Instead, boot from a vanilla SATA disk on a vanilla SATA port set to be
> the first BIOS boot device. Optionally, mirror the boot volume with
> mdadm and set the two devices as first and second BIOS boot devices.
> 

Thanks Richard, that's how my system is setup right now. I was hoping to
get rid of the generic SATA setup to boot fedora 20 and have a full SAS
system booting from the SAS controller. So be it...

Cheers. Steve.