[BlueOnyx:17883] Re: Fresh install 5208R, no RAID1

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 6/21/2015 9:37 PM, Jeff Folk wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2015, at 9:31 PM, Jeff Folk wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I should try disconnecting that, but I thought USB was in a different letter scheme.
>
> It was the memory card readers… I feel so stupid… Creating the VolGroups immediately without choosing which drives to install on.
>
> Not likely to forget this lesson any time soon.

Wow, nice going on that piece of troubleshooting!  I never would have 
guessed that one!   It "felt" like strange drive assignments, but until 
you mentioned the USB reader I never would have considered that. 
Yeah... depending on how your BIOS is set up, it can assign those 
devices as drives.   That's the basis by which you can boot USB devices 
such as memory sticks, optical drives and even USB hard drives.

As a matter of fact, we set up a little server with no SATA attached, 
but a 4TB disk via USB on a SATA -> USB converter.  It assigned right up 
as /dev/sda.   For whatever reason, the idea that your box may be doing 
that just never occurred to me.

Well, glad that at the end of the day you got it running.

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