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No disc detected during installation

Post by cosnk » 2020/06/24 04:14:58

I have a small HP Proliant Microserver used in our small office.
Several months ago I had installed minimal mode of Fedora 30 Server for testing and there is no data file in the server.
I'd like to move to CentOS 8.
During installation, I need CentOS to wipe out Fedora 30.
But no disc detected during installation.
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And what should be done next ?
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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by tunk » 2020/06/24 13:17:05

Which model? What's the hardware specs, in particular, the disk (RAID) controller?

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by cosnk » 2020/06/24 17:25:03

HP ProLiant MicroServer G7 N40L
AMD TurionTM II Neo N40L (1.5GHz)
8GB of RAM
3.5" SATA drive:
250GB x 1 (used for Fedora 30 installation)
2TB x 2

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by cosnk » 2020/06/26 07:53:16

Help me please :cry:

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by mathog » 2020/06/26 17:50:25

You are most likely suffering from the issues discussed in this thread (kernel missing driver needed for your hardware):

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=73634&p=310316&hil ... og#p310316

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by cosnk » 2020/07/03 07:19:21

I have installed CentOS 7 instead.
CentOS 7 solved this problem.

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by mathog » 2020/07/05 00:39:48

cosnk wrote:
2020/07/03 07:19:21
CentOS 7 solved this problem.
7 had some driver your system needs, 8 does not, and so the latter won't install on some systems which were fine with the previous version.

It is more than a little annoying that the installer only offers up " no disk found" when it should at least process lspci to see what it is working with and note that there is no driver for some storage controller. What happened to you happened to many of us, and many of us were baffled why a system that worked at 7 did not work at 8. CentOS Plus would fix most of these, but that product does not have an installer with a kernel which includes the missing drivers, so getting there will be a battle.

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by TrevorH » 2020/07/05 00:42:26

Many of the missing drivers are packaged by ELRepo and can be used as Driver Update Disks at install time. You'd have to post the output from lspci -nn for anyone to be able to identify the exact model of controller and to check what is used for it.
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.
Use the FAQ Luke

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by mathog » 2020/07/07 21:42:53

TrevorH wrote:
2020/07/05 00:42:26
Many of the missing drivers are packaged by ELRepo and can be used as Driver Update Disks at install time. You'd have to post the output from lspci -nn for anyone to be able to identify the exact model of controller and to check what is used for it.
Exactly - the fix is a bunch of unexpected extra steps which fall into the end user's lap at a time when the computer is basically unusable. It is possible that the network driver might also be missing, but I have yet to see anybody encounter that, so rather than:

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no disk found
It would be much nicer if it did:

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no disk found
network available? yes
check El Repo for missing drivers (Y/n)?
Y
connecting to El Repo
checking for missing drivers for this hardware
Found missing driver(s): 
  WHATEVER  storage control driver
Install missing drivers (Y/n)?
Y
Installing...
Scanning for disks...
Disk found
and off to the races. Only costing the end user two "Y" presses and a few seconds. Much better than the current situation, which requires research to understand the problem, figuring out a way to get the driver onto the machine, and starting the installation over from the beginning. Admittedly it requires pieces to be added to CentOS which were not originally in Red Hat's release.

Either that or come up with a CentOS Plus installer with a CentOS Plus kernel, which would likely fix most of these "no disk found" problems.

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Re: No disc detected during installation

Post by cosnk » 2021/08/15 07:50:41

I will be trying CentOS Stream installation soon.
Will this problem happen then ?

This is the result of lspci -nn on CentOS 7:

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[centos000@localhost ~]$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge [1022:9601]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Hewlett-Packard Company AMD RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [103c:9602]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2) [1022:9606]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 42)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller [1002:439c] (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:16.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:16.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control [1022:1204]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] [1002:9712]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:165b] (rev 10)
[centos000@localhost ~]$ 

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