Installing SLES 10 RC3 to SAN

A note of caution to anyone installing SLES 10 RC3 to a bootable slice of a
SAN:

Using a Dell Poweredge 1850 with a QLA2340 fibre card, Yast would not mark
the target "disk" bootable, even after partitioning and installing
RPMS to
that very "disk". After an hour of cursing at the "no operating
system"
message on the monitor, I started the rescue system, chrooted to the target
"disk" and ran the grub-install script. This put the grub on the boot
sector and let me move on to CD2 and finish the install and thus have a
working system, bootable from the SAN.

schwa@unt.edu wrote:
> A note of caution to anyone installing SLES 10 RC3 to a bootable slice of
a
> SAN:
>
> Using a Dell Poweredge 1850 with a QLA2340 fibre card, Yast would not mark
> the target "disk" bootable, even after partitioning and
installing RPMS to
> that very "disk". After an hour of cursing at the "no
operating system"
> message on the monitor, I started the rescue system, chrooted to the
target
> "disk" and ran the grub-install script. This put the grub on the
boot
> sector and let me move on to CD2 and finish the install and thus have a
> working system, bootable from the SAN.
>
> Here's hoping that this is fixed in the final release.

Using SLES 9 and booting to our SAN with a QLA2340 card I have not had
problems installing, but rather after kernel upgrades the system would
become unbootable. I would have to boot from the CD, reinstall a
previous kernel that worked, and then boot the installed system. I
believe the drivers for the QLA2340 are not very reliable for a SAN
boot. Your post leads me to believe there are still issues. Good luck!