[TriLUG] Server Distro on HP with SAS Drives

[Warren Myers via TriLUG]

what model ProLiant?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> I have an HP Proliant machine with SAS drives that I would like to bring
> online as an updated server.  After giving it a little thought, I decided
> to put CentOS on it, though I am not married to that distribution.
>
> I downloaded the ISO (note, the minimal ISO would not run, apparently due
> to missing drivers that are in the standard DVD version), verified the SHA
> SUM and verified the GPG signature on the sums (Thank's Mint).  The system
> would boot and the installation manager started.
>
> All appeared to be going well, until I realized it doesn't see any disks
> in the machine.  As I mentioned in the subject title, the machine has SAS
> drives.  It looks like Red Hat has removed a lot of functionality or even
> the drivers for the HP Smart Array Controller and as such it doesn't see
> any drives
> (
> http://vessokolev.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-to-install-centos-7-on-hp-proliant.html
> )
>
> The blog I linked to has instructions for what look like extracting the
> driver from an older Centos system, hacking the ISO image, and using it to
> install the newer version.
>
> My question(s) is (are): has anyone run into this and do you have a better
> solution or is there a distribution that does work with SAS drives?
>
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