Problem finding hard drive while installing centos 6.10 from USB

chrille · 03-09-2020, 04:54 AM

I have encouterd a problem while trying to install centos 6.10 from a usb.
The setup I am using is
* HPE proliant ML30 Gen 10
First i belived the problem was how I initalzed the Hard drive in the Bios, but for fun i downlaoded centos 7.5 and to my suprise that worked perfectly.
So is there any vital step I am missing or is there any driver I need to download if the set up i am using is to "new" for centos 6.10.
Appricate every answer, Thanks in advance.
//Chrille

michaelk · 03-09-2020, 05:20 AM

CentOS will reach end of life in November 2020. Is there a reason you need to install 6.10?

What problem did you encounter?

berndbausch · 03-09-2020, 05:26 AM

I'd guess that the Centos 7.5 installation environment includes the correct drivers, whereas 6.10 doesn't.

According to HPE, 7.5 and 8.0 are supported. The document doesn't mention 6.10.

chrille · 03-09-2020, 05:34 AM

Yes there is a reason, The reason is that we have an superordinated systems that is tailormade for the costumer and they want a back up server. And the system is build up around the OS of 6.10.

chrille · 03-09-2020, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by berndbausch

I'd guess that the Centos 7.5 installation environment includes the correct drivers, whereas 6.10 doesn't.

According to HPE, 7.5 and 8.0 are supported. The document doesn't mention 6.10.

Do you know if these driver can be manually installed from somewhere? this is a kinda long shot.

berndbausch · 03-09-2020, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrille

Do you know if these driver can be manually installed from somewhere? this is a kinda long shot.

Sorry, I don't even know what kind of disks and/or SCSI HBA you have. Probably Smartarray LUNs? Gen 10 is fairly new.

Perhaps look around on the SDR?

EDIT: A thought: Install 7.5, then check which drivers are used and try to find something equivalent for 6.10.

Another EDIT: The SDR seems to have stuff for 6.8 on Gen10.

chrille · 03-09-2020, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by berndbausch

Sorry, I don't even know what kind of disks and/or SCSI HBA you have. Probably Smartarray LUNs? Gen 10 is fairly new.

Perhaps look around on the SDR?

EDIT: A thought: Install 7.5, then check which drivers are used and try to find something equivalent for 6.10.

Another EDIT: The SDR seems to have stuff for 6.8 on Gen10.

Thank you for your answer I will try that and let you guys know if it helped!

Edit: I think i bit of more than I could chew, don¨t realy know what drivers I am looking for which makes it kinda difficult.
If it helps the hard drive is a "ATA Disk , MB001000GWFWK (1TB)"

chrille · 03-10-2020, 09:17 AM

Solution!

The work throu is the following,

Access UEFI System Utilities by pressing F9 (System Utilities) during POST.
Select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) > Storage Options > SATA Controller Options > Embedded SATA Configuration >Enable AHCI Mode and save and reboot

This does unfortuenaly make that the setup has no reduncy, so if it is worth it i don't know. But the controller HPE Smart Array S100i SR Gen 10 Only support Windows server adn therefor we nned to disable it.

jhasaurav · 03-23-2020, 10:43 AM

are you dual booting or install throughout complete system.

TB0ne · 03-23-2020, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by jhasaurav

are you dual booting or install throughout complete system.

Please check the thread; the OP has already posted the solution and closed the thread.

vwtech · 03-26-2020, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrille

Yes there is a reason, The reason is that we have an superordinated systems that is tailormade for the costumer and they want a back up server. And the system is build up around the OS of 6.10.

This is the perfect time to move to CentOS 7.X or CentOS 8.X, there is no use installing a system that will be EOL November 30, 2020