Hello,
I have some old R310 with PERC controllers in them that I want to use for some non critical projects. The machines were working fine under Oracle Linux 7.7 but when trying to install 8.1, it doesn't find any hard drive to perform the installation.
I did some searches and found out that RedHat retired those drivers from the distribution and also found that elrepo has drivers and disk update. This article describres the procedure: https://fatmin.com/2019/11/23/installing-rhel-8-1-on-dell-r710-r610-with-h700-raid-controller/
Following that, I'm able to start the installation and the drive is found and all goes well.
However, when I do a system update, it can't boot anymore. The older kernel still works though.
I did another test doing the same procedure on centos 8.1 and everything works correctly even after the update.
One difference I noticed in the modules directory after the update, centos has a weak_update directory with files refering to the megaraid driver and that's not there on Oracle Linux in the newer kernel directory.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Thanks.