Phelps, Matthew
2019-Oct-10 13:18 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 8 Installation Not Recognizing Local Disk
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?> > --- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > 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 > > Research Systems Administrator > > Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) > > (410)570-3516 (Mobile) > > (443)-654-7897 (Office) > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>
Ljubomir Ljubojevic
2019-Oct-10 15:51 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 8 Installation Not Recognizing Local Disk
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> > > >> >> --- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> 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 >>> Research Systems Administrator >>> Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) >>> (410)570-3516 (Mobile) >>> (443)-654-7897 (Office) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > >-- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant
Phelps, Matthew
2019-Oct-10 16:10 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS 8 Installation Not Recognizing Local Disk
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.> > > > > > > > >> > >> --- > >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > >> > >> 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 > >>> Research Systems Administrator > >>> Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) > >>> (410)570-3516 (Mobile) > >>> (443)-654-7897 (Office) > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> CentOS mailing list > >>> CentOS at centos.org > >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS mailing list > >> CentOS at centos.org > >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >> > > > > > > > -- > Ljubomir Ljubojevic > (Love is in the Air) > PL Computers > Serbia, Europe > > StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant >-- *Matt Phelps* *Information Technology Specialist, Systems Administrator* (Computation Facility, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian 60 Garden Street | MS 39 | Cambridge, MA 02138 email: mphelps at cfa.harvard.edu cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook <http://cfa.harvard.edu/facebook> | Twitter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/twitter> | YouTube <http://cfa.harvard.edu/youtube> | Newsletter <http://cfa.harvard.edu/newsletter>