[CentOS] CentOS 8 Installation Not Recognizing Local Disk

Thu Oct 10 16:10:13 UTC 2019
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:52 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>
wrote:

> On 10/10/19 3:18 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 9:04 AM Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:
> >
> >> 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-adapters.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/dd-mpt3sas-27.101.00.00-1.el8_0.elrepo.iso
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Is there a utility somewhere to check a running system to see if it is
> > going to be supported in RHEL/CentOS 8?
>
> 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/html/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/hardware-enablement_considerations-in-adopting-rhel-8#removed-adapters_hardware-enablement
>
> 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
>
>
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.



>
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> >
> >
> >>
> >> ---
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> >>
> >> On 2019-10-10 14:01, Brewer, Mitchell wrote:
> >>> 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
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> Ljubomir Ljubojevic
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> PL Computers
> Serbia, Europe
>
> StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
>


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