[BlueOnyx:23673] Installing with a driver update disk (DUD)

[Neil Watson]

Hi all 

I've tried installing BlueOnyx-5210R-CentOS-8.1.1911-20200116.iso [1]
(5210R - latest build) onto a Dell Poweredge R710 with a PERC R700 RAID
controller.... 

As I've read, Redhat (and hence Centos) have removed lots of drivers in
release 8... So... I've downloaded
dd-megaraid_sas-07.707.51.00-1.el8_1.elrepo.iso [2] from
http://elrepo.org and burnt it to a CDRW as recommended in
https://fatmin.com/2019/11/23/installing-rhel-8-1-on-dell-r710-r610-with-h700-raid-controller/


Boot into the BO DVD-RW that I've extracted the ISO to... 

The initial menu says: "BlueOnyx 5210R on Centos 8.0.1905" .... Is it
supposed to be 8.1.1911"? 

Hit tab on the 2nd line (Single disk, no LVM) as the hardware raid is
doing the job... Add "inst.dd" to the vmlinuz line and hit enter and the
install starts.... 

The "Driver Disk Device Selection" prompt happens offering the main
install disk and my "OEMDRV" CDRW... Select the OEMDRV and the install
examines the drive - but it then prints "DD NO SUITABLE DRIVERS FOUND". 

Thinking I'd messed up the driver disk, I downloaded the full Centos 8.1
package and successfully installed that by the same mechanism and the
same OEMDRV disk for 8.1.... I've also tried
BlueOnyx-5210R-CentOS-8.0.1905-20191118.iso [3] but with the 8.0 version
of the driver (of course they've changed things between 8.0 and 8.1!)
and that worked - but when yum updated Centos to 8.1, it broke the
driver so I had to reinstall (again - glad I'm not trying to use it in
anger, just as the "new host" for my current 5106R environment!!). I've
also tried the 8.0 version of the driver with
BlueOnyx-5210R-CentOS-8.1.1911-20200116 and it just doesn't work - lots
of error messages. 

SO... I'm confused: the driver disk is fine with
CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso and yet won't work with
BlueOnyx-5210R-CentOS-8.1.1911-20200116.iso which (in theory) has the
same base OS... 

Hopefully this has told you all you need to know :) 

Regards & thanks for all the hard work you put in... 

Neil. 

 

Links:
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[1]
http://mirror.blueonyx.de/pub/BlueOnyx/ISO/BlueOnyx-5210R-CentOS-8.1.1911-20200116.iso
[2]
https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/dd-megaraid_sas-07.707.51.00-1.el8_1.elrepo.iso
[3]
http://mirror.blueonyx.de/pub/BlueOnyx/ISO/BlueOnyx-5210R-CentOS-8.0.1905-20191118.iso
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