[elrepo] RHEL 8 install problem on old HP N36L microserver

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 9:32 AM Jeremy Norfolk via elrepo
<elrepo at lists.elrepo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi - I wonder if someone may be able to help with a problem I am having trying to install RHEL 8 on an old HP microserver.
>
> I have a HP Proliant microserver N36L which has been running RHEL and/or Centos for some years. I want to move to RHEL 8, but I cannot install RHEL 8 on the SSD that I have connected to the Optical disk cable in the server - presumably because of the removal of a kmod package.
> I think that I could install to a disk in one of the 4 drive bays in the server, but I would prefer to use the SSD and it does not easily fit into the brackets for the drive bays.
>
> Below is some information from the current Centos 7 system running on the SSD on the server in case someone can offer some advice.
> It's possible that I am misreading the information, but it looks like I need to use a driver update disk containing kmod-pata_atiixp (or pata_atiixp.ko) although I am not sure just where to get that from.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> Regards.
> Jeremy.
>
>
> This is the current boot disk:
> [root at neo9 block]# ll /sys/block
> ...
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Feb 19 16:36 sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.1/ata1/host0/target0:0:1/0:0:1:0/block/sda
> ...
> [root at neo9 ~]# lspci -nn
> 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS880 Host Bridge [1022:9601]
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Hewlett-Packard Company AMD RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [103c:9602]
> 00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2) [1022:9606]
> 00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391] (rev 40)
> 00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
> 00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
> 00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
> 00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
> 00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 42)
> 00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller [1002:439c] (rev 40)
> 00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
> 00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
> 00:16.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
> 00:16.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
> 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
> 00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map [1022:1201]
> 00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
> 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
> 00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control [1022:1204]
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] [1002:9712]
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:165b] (rev 10)
> [root at neo9 ~]#
>
> From "http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs" it looks like I will have to use the pata_atiixp.ko
> ...
> pata_atiixp.ko
> pci 1002:4349 kmod-pata
> pci 1002:4369 kmod-pata
> pci 1002:4376 kmod-pata
> pci 1002:438C kmod-pata
> pci 1002:439C kmod-pata <----
>
> I'm not sure where to find this.

You can find the DUD iso image here:

https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/

dd-pata_atiixp-0.4.6-1.el8_3.elrepo.iso

Just built for you. :)

Akemi