Centos Stream 8 and 9 installers don't recognize HDD

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khenty
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Centos Stream 8 and 9 installers don't recognize HDD

Post by khenty » 2022/08/04 18:52:43

When I try to install CentOS Stream 8 or Stream 9 from either a USB stick or a DVD, the installation program lists all the hard drives on my system (HP Z420) except the one to which I want to install CentOS. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian installation programs have no such problem, would install on this drive if I so chose. Why don't CentOS Stream 8 and 9 recognize this hard drive? Here's the lshw output, generated on Linux Mint:

*-disk:1
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD4005FZBX-0
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0.1.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.1.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: 1A01
serial: VBGAH3JF
size: 3726GiB (4TB)
capabilities: gpt-1.00 partitioned partitioned:gpt
configuration: ansiversion=5 guid=84ed1367-c75d-4ab4-8009-036eb551c2db logicalsectorsize=512 sectorsize=4096


Is there a fix to this, short of buying a new HDD?

Thanks!

BShT
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Re: Centos Stream 8 and 9 installers don't recognize HDD

Post by BShT » 2022/08/05 12:59:42

probably it is a controller issue more then a hard disk issue
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Re: Centos Stream 8 and 9 installers don't recognize HDD

Post by TrevorH » 2022/08/05 13:48:09

I suspect the disk has FakeRAID metadata on it. RHEL/CentOS ignore drives with this metadata as they expect it to appear as part of a FakeRAID array as well. You can erase the fakeraid metadata using the dmraid command (dmraid -E -r /dev/sdX but check the man page in case I have the wrong syntax). Be aware that this may remove the data on the disk as well!
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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