We have a Dell R410 Server that was donated to our testing lab. We are running Centos7 in a lab for instruction.
8GB RAM
4 600GB SAS drives.
We want to install Centos without raiding the SAS hard drives so we removed the virtual disk.
We are having trouble booting to an installation media USB or CD.
If anyone has ideas , please throw me a bone.
Do we have to create Virtual Disks?
Install Centos7 on Dell R410 server problems
Re: Install Centos7 on Dell R410 server problems
You'll have to set up the RAID controller so it presents a disk to the operating system before you install. Different ones use different terminolgy but creating a Virtual Disk sounds like something you need to do.
How did you create your USB stick? The only supported methods are to use dd (on linux) or dd or rawrite2 on Windows.
How did you create your USB stick? The only supported methods are to use dd (on linux) or dd or rawrite2 on Windows.
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Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: Install Centos7 on Dell R410 server problems
Thank you.
I always use dd to create USB installs using Linux. Centos or Gentoo
I'll post back when I have some success.
I always use dd to create USB installs using Linux. Centos or Gentoo
I'll post back when I have some success.
Re: Install Centos7 on Dell R410 server problems
- Created a RAID0: Virtual Drive *(4x600GM = 2.1TB)TrevorH wrote:You'll have to set up the RAID controller so it presents a disk to the operating system before you install. Different ones use different terminolgy but creating a Virtual Disk sounds like something you need to do.
How did you create your USB stick? The only supported methods are to use dd (on linux) or dd or rawrite2 on Windows.
- There are 4 SAS drives.
I was able to boot to a system install now the Centos install can not see the Virtual drive.
Do I set the bios to ATA?
I'm using a usb with Centos 7 install minimal.
Thanks