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HP P400 RAID Card Driver
I'm attempting to install ClearOS 7.1.0 Beta 2 on a HP machine with a P400 RAID card. The P400 RAID card does not appear to be recognised by the installer.
Has support for the P400 RAID card been dropped from ClearOS 7? Or is it PEBKAC on my part?
Incidentally, ClearOS 6.6.0 recognises the same P400 RAID card in the same machine.
Has support for the P400 RAID card been dropped from ClearOS 7? Or is it PEBKAC on my part?
Incidentally, ClearOS 6.6.0 recognises the same P400 RAID card in the same machine.
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Hi, it seems that some support was dropped for P400 from the kernel drivers in the ClearOS7 upstream code, even though it was supported in 6.x, similar topic here at the CentOS forum
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=47011
A work around is to compile the kmod-cciss driver post-install
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=47011
A work around is to compile the kmod-cciss driver post-install
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When you boot up and go into the install, press tab key to get to your install options.
From here append cciss.cciss_allow_hpsa=1 hpsa.hpsa_simple_mode=1 hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 to your boot options.
When the installer boots up, you should see your logical volume and use it as an install destination. Select it and install your system -
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UPDATE - After install ClearOS 7 you will have to boot into rescue mode and change grub2 configuration add "hpsa.hpsa_simple_mode=1 hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1" to the /etc/default/grub file
Boot up to rescue mode.
After install the ClearOS 7 reboot it, at the boot manual press e to edit boot option and add "rescue hpsa.hpsa_simple_mode=1 hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1" at the end, then Ctrl - X to boot the system.
Add hpsa to grub.
edit /etc/default/grub.cfg and add this to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX hpsa.hpsa_simple_mode=1 hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1
vi /etc/default/grub.cfg
#/etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="ClearOS"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=clearos/root rd.lvm.lv=clearos/swap rhgb quiet hpsa.hpsa_simple_mode=1 hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
save and exit
:wq
Reconfigure grub.
After that run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to reconfigure grub
Reboot your system. -
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After you have added hpsa_simple_mode and hpsa_allow_any to grub you need to update both legacy boot and EFI boot;
#Legacy boot
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
#EFI boot - do both to be sure.
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/clearos/grub.cfg
Otherwise if you tinker about in the BIOS one day and switch it to EFI boot it won't find your P400 RAID card.
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