On 07/26/2016 11:21 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:> A number of older storage and network drivers were purged from the > kernel with the release of el7. If this hardware is old enough, it's > entirely possible that it's no longer supported out of the box.This is particularly likely if this same hardware has been used with "CentOS 5/6" as reported in the original message.
So; there's no hope to install Centos 7 on this H/W? On 07/27/2016 12:04 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 07/26/2016 11:21 AM, Jim Perrin wrote: >> A number of older storage and network drivers were purged from the >> kernel with the release of el7. If this hardware is old enough, it's >> entirely possible that it's no longer supported out of the box. > > > This is particularly likely if this same hardware has been used with > "CentOS 5/6" as reported in the original message. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 07/28/2016 03:42 PM, Fawzy Ibrahim wrote:> So; there's no hope to install Centos 7 on this H/W?You need to better identify the card and determine if it's one of the drivers that was dropped. If so, you'd have to build a driver disk and maintain your own driver builds for each kernel update. It's not "no hope" exactly, but it would probably take a moderate amount of experience to keep running. I'd be wary of hardware used as far back as CentOS 5, but I don't see driver changes between RHEL 6 and 7 that I'd expect to impact an LSI Megaraid card. The old "megaraid" driver was dropped in RHEL 6, leaving just the megaraid_sas driver in 6 and 7. If you run release 6 on that system (boot a live image), look at "lspci" and "lsmod" output. The latter will tell you what drivers are in use, and should be useful to tracking down support in release 7.