[BlueOnyx:23042] Re: HP ProLiant DL380 G5 4 gig Ram and 6 hard drives

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Franklin,

> How do I install BlueOnyx on this server???  Driving me nuts, I can boot up on the DVD but no hard drives show up no matter how I configure the SCSI interface. I want to use it as my primary DNS...
> As a note: I can install the latest Ubuntu Linux on it with no problem.

The BlueOnyx ISO has three boot options:

1.) Install BlueOnyx 5209R (HD Autodetect)

2.) Install BlueOnyx 5209R (Single Disk, no LVM)

3.) Install BlueOnyx 5209R (Small Servers)

The first and the third one try to find the harddisks via the
"list-harddrives" command provided by the Anaconda installer:

disks="$(list-harddrives|cut -d \  -f1|sort)"

With RAID it's possible that the RAID controller presents a "block
device" (disk) to the OS in a name that Anaconda's "list-harddrives"
doesn't recognize. Or it could be that the RAID driver that the
mini-Linux of the installer uses doesn't recognize the RAID in first
place. It should, as that ProLiant is using something that's pretty common.

The second option (Single Disk, no LVM) uses a much simpler method and
it should even find disks that "list-harddrives" couldn't see. Please
try that option and see if it works for you.

Lastly - if even that doesn't work - there is another way: Install
CentOS 7 from the official ISO (minimal install) and then install
BlueOnyx 5209R this way:

https://www.blueonyx.it/5209r-manual-install

All you need to do is to disable SELinux, install the RPM of the
BlueOnyx YUM repository and run a "yum groupinstall blueonyx". Then
/root/network_settings.sh must be run once (even if the network is
already configured!) and you're good to go.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber