Dell R620 R720 installation kickstart installation of centos8
update 2019-12-19
Try upgrading the new kernel and find it is stable. Pay attention to the version number.
[root ~]# uname -r4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64[root@ ~]# rpm -qa|grep drdracut-049-10.git20190115.el8_0.1.x86_64dracut-network-049-10.git20190115.el8_0.1.x86_64google-droid-sans-fonts-20120715-13.el8.noarchlibXrandr-1.5.1-7.el8.x86_64dracut-config-rescue-049-10.git20190115.el8_0.1.x86_64dracut-squash-049-10.git20190115.el8_0.1.x86_64
If dracut is lower than this version, please download elrepo patch, update and restart after installation is complete!!!
The link is as follows:
http://elrepo.org/people/akemi/testing/el8/dracut/
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preface
The previous article describes how to install centos8 manually, this article mainly describes how to use kickstart to automate the installation and solve the batch installation of centos8.
preparations
This tutorial is only for DellR620, R720. The raid models are LSI2008 and LSI2108.
1. View server raid information lspci -nn| grep LSI02:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] [1000:0073] (rev 03)
Check to see if hardware ID is on Redhat removed list
remove list
You can see that the Raid driver has been removed from the source code, and other hardware drivers can also be viewed in this table.
2. Download raid driver
Thanks to the elrepo team, they extracted the raid driver and packaged it publicly for everyone to use.
The drive link is as follows:
https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/
Find the appropriate raid driver based on your raid model.
dd-megaaid_sas-07.707.50.00-1.el8_0.elrepo.iso is used because the previous raid information is MegaRAID SAS
2.1 Put dud iso on nfs and modify kickstart
configuration file intercept configuration
# Use NFS installation medianfs --server=172.16.0.253 --dir=/ct80_64# install duddriverdisk --source=nfs://172.16.0.253/mnt/dd-megaraid_sas-07.707.50.00-1.el8_0.elrepo.iso3. Install the system and load the driver 3.1. You can watch the logs while installing
The log shows module load.
3.2 If the driver is inconsistent, the installation interface will be stuck, and storage3.3 cannot be found. Please do not upgrade the kernel and dracut. If the system is restarted after upgrading, the system will crash.
The problem description and resolution are as follows
https://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php? id=919
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3243
Although foreigners say it is solved, but I still hang live here, if you have the ability to please handle it. Or wait for centos 8.1
