Dell Poweredge R640 with BOSS-S1

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Dell Poweredge R640 with BOSS-S1

Post by woody1 » 2018/07/10 10:46:46

I am trying to install CentOS onto a new Dell R640 server with the BOSS-S1 Raid controller but the install is not able to mount the drives on the controller is there an updated driver I need to install?

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Re: Dell Poweredge R640 with BOSS-S1

Post by TrevorH » 2018/07/10 11:17:43

What was the full name of the iso file that you downloaded?
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Re: Dell Poweredge R640 with BOSS-S1

Post by woody1 » 2018/07/10 11:39:38

CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1805-01

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Re: Dell Poweredge R640 with BOSS-S1

Post by TrevorH » 2018/07/10 12:47:32

Well that's not really the official installation media but it is newer than that so should probably work. As an aside, you do not need the Everything media to do an install. The ordinary DVD contains all packages that can be selected by the installer so the Everything DVD is just a waste of 4GB of bandwidth.

This page says it should work on newer than 7.3. If you switch to terminal 2 in the installer - that has a root command prompt on it - you can try those lspci commands that are in the screenshots on the dell link above. Do you get similar output?
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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