FC7: turn off device-mapper for installation

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08-20-2007, 07:52 PM	#1
jhwilliams Senior Member Registered: Apr 2007 Location: Portland, OR Distribution: Debian, Android, LFS Posts: 1,168 Rep:	FC7: turn off device-mapper for installation I have two SATA drivers configured independently (no raid) on a Promise PDC20378. I specify nodmraid to the fc7 boot prompt, but the installer keeps recognizing my drivers as a /dev/mapper/pdcnonsense, instead of showing up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Is there another (functional) argument I can pass to vmlinuz when booting the installer?

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