[BlueOnyx:23052] Re: HP ProLiant DL380 G5 4 gig Ram and 6 hard drives

[Franklin Werren]

Since BlueOnyx with CentOS and the bare bones CentOS did not work, Blue Onyx Scientific Linux 
Is installing just fine. I think the support or there is a bug in CentOS 7.6 pertaining to my server.... I’ll report back later!!!!

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Franklin S Werren - N2JYG
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> On Jul 30, 2019, at 12:45 PM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:
> 
> 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
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