[CentOS] CentOS 8 Installation Not Recognizing Local Disk

Thu Oct 10 13:18:26 UTC 2019
Phelps, Matthew <mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu>

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.
>
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> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2019-October/173682.html
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> https://elrepoproject.blogspot.com/2019/08/rhel-80-and-support-for-removed-adapters.html
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> https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/dd-mpt3sas-27.101.00.00-1.el8_0.elrepo.iso
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Is there a utility somewhere to check a running system to see if it is
going to be supported in RHEL/CentOS 8?



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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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