I have an older Dell PowerEdge server with one hard drive, with CentOS 7 currently installed. I wanted to do a clean install of CentOS 8, but it doesn't pick up the hard drive. When I click on the destination to pick the hard drive it only shows the USB drive that I'm installing from. I checked for a RAID configuration on the server, but there is only one disk, and no RAID is configured. The disk is controlled by the PowerEdge Raid Controller (PERC), but when I disable that I lose the disk completely. I suspect that PERC is part of the problem, but a CentOS 7 install proceeds normally with PERC enabled. Do you know of a change from CentOS 7 to 8 that would cause this, or if there is a workaround? I've searched for several days and haven't found anything yet.
Thank you!
Mitch
Mitchell Brewer Research Systems Administrator Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) (410)570-3516 (Mobile) (443)-654-7897 (Office)
There was a recent thread about Redhat's removal of drivers from LSI SAS2, it's probably the problem you are facing. It can be worked around with the help of Elrepo repo.
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-October/173682.html
https://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-a...
https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/dd-mpt3sas-27.101.00.00-1.el8_0.elre...
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On 2019-10-10 14:01, Brewer, Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 9:04 AM Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
Is there a utility somewhere to check a running system to see if it is going to be supported in RHEL/CentOS 8?
On 10/10/19 3:18 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
If you read the ElRepo Blog, you would know the following:
You can check by running the lspci command (lspci -nn) and compare it with Red Hats list of removed ID's: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm...
Here is the list of all (so far created) the DUD's for EL8: https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/
And here is ElRepo page http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs that shows all the drivers ElRepo has the drivers for, and can create DUD ISO files if asked via ElRepo bugzila: https://elrepo.org/bugs/main_page.php
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:52 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos@plnet.rs wrote:
If you read my question, you would have answered "No. There is no utility that I'm aware of."
Thank you for pointing me to the information, which I have already seen. I was wondering if someone has coded up a script already to check a running system, before I do it myself.
Hi guys.
Somebody should use info from my mail (https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-October/173682.html) to create a page in Wiki and maybe even special notice on main Web page, it looks like next few months people will continually ask for that info as they go to move to install CentOS 8.
It might be worth thinking over how to provide that info (Wiki) inside installer for 8.1, 8.2, etc. if no disks are detected.
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