The added string to the boot CD/USB CentOS 8 Installation disk is: And of course, to download a file from the Internet a network should be set in the earliest stage of the CentOS 8 installation wizard. The installation CD/USB can download an iso with kernel drivers. Add boot parameters to set up a valid network configuration.
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There are still servers in production with similar controllers, which were sold 4-5 years ago from the big vendors such as DELL, HP, and so on. Unfortunately, the CentOS 8 (in fact, RHEL 8 removed the support, too) team decided to remove support for the LSI SAS2008/2108/2116 storage controllers by removing the “ megaraid_sas” kernel driver.
LSI MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER CENTOS 7 HOW TO
This article shows how to make the CentOS 8 Installation wizard detect the storage – a hardware controller AOC-USAS2LP-H8iR (smc2108 with LSI 2108). Installing CentOS 8 in relatively old hardware maybe a real challenge because of an old hardware device like storage, network, or both.