[elrepo] kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7

[Phil Perry]

On 20/07/2021 17:31, Tristan Evans wrote:
> Thanks all, I'm still playing with it and will try all of your 
> suggestions, then report back.
> 
> The thing that complicates this is that I'm trying all of this from the 
> CentOS (minimal) installer environment loaded from a USB drive, rather 
> than the actual OS installed on the disk, as I can't actually get the 
> installed OS to load after installation (keeps falling into the 
> emergency environment). I'm thinking a lot of my challenges may have 
> something to do with that? However, I have had a lot of luck with 
> loading other KMODs on other systems that have out-of-support hardware 
> (megaraid_sas) in this fashion (loading the RPM from a DUD using the 
> "inst.dd" kernel parameter).
> 
> I'm not exactly sure how to use `yum` in the installer environment yet 
> (looks like there is `anaconda-yum`, so I could possibly experiment with 
> that). I'm doing another fresh install of CentOS (it takes a while) and 
> then I'll try to `chroot` into that environment from the installer 
> environment, and install the RPM with `yum`. If that doesn't work, I'll 
> do a `yum upgrade` and try again. I don't know if that is really helpful 
> or not, but I'm curious to see what happens.
> 
> To shed a little light around my main goal is that I have a LOT of these 
> systems with this chipset that I'm trying to get onto CentOS 7 using 
> Foreman, so it is ultimately important for me to be able to get the 
> CentOS installer environment to load the KMOD RPM via a DUD, which would 
> ensure that the OS installs at a non-glacial pace and actually loads 
> during boot :)
> 
> Apologies if I'm making this overly complicated!
> 
> Tristan
> 

Hi Tristan,

I've sent you a DUD image for kmod-sata_via off list just in case, but 
sounds like you already have a fair amount of experience working with these.

Apologies, in my earlier reply I'd assumed you had a working (albeit 
slowly) installation - I didn't realise you couldn't boot into it.

Phil