![]() ![]() I got 4 Seagate 7200RPM 1TB SATA drives and a SAS 8470 breakout to 4 SATA cable. Then money ran out before I could buy drives and locate a cable until recently. Installing CentOS 8 in relatively old hardware maybe a real challenge because of an old hardware device like storage, network, or both.OK, so, about a year ago I bought a LSI MegaRAID card on eBay, used, pulled from a IBM server. This article shows how to make the CentOS 8 Installation wizard detect the storage – a hardware controller AOC-USAS2LP-H8iR (smc2108 with LSI 2108). LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER CENTOS 7 HOW TO Unfortunately, the CentOS 8 (in fact, RHEL 8 removed the support, too) team decided to remove support for the LSI SAS2008/2108/2116 storage controllers by removing the “ megaraid_sas” kernel driver. There are still servers in production with similar controllers, which were sold 4-5 years ago from the big vendors such as DELL, HP, and so on. The offered way to load the megaraid_sas (or any other driver) includes: The method here is to boot the installation CD/USB with modified kernel boot parameters to include an URL link to the installation driver iso (where the megaraid_sas driver is included). Use assisted driver update to load an elrepo driver ISO during the first stage of the CentOS 8 Installation Wizard.Configure the network of the server to be able to download the driver ISO in the early stage of the CentOS 8 Installation Wizard.Add boot parameters to set up a valid network configuration. The installation CD/USB can download an iso with kernel drivers. The added string to the boot CD/USB CentOS 8 Installation disk is: And of course, to download a file from the Internet a network should be set in the earliest stage of the CentOS 8 installation wizard. ![]() LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER CENTOS 7 HOW TO. ![]()
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