<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Dave,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm happy to learn things went well for you. <br></div><div><br></div><div>We have a script for creating DUD iso images here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/elrepo/elrepo-scripts/blob/master/mkdd.sh">https://github.com/elrepo/elrepo-scripts/blob/master/mkdd.sh</a></div><div><br></div><div>Just place a kmod binary rpm and its source rpm in a directory and run:</div><div><br></div><div>(path to)/mkdd.sh *.x86_64.rpm</div><div><br></div><div>Akemi<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 8:44 AM David Carvalho via elrepo <<a href="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org">elrepo@lists.elrepo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg3657536565920793981"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-GB"><div class="m_3657536565920793981WordSection1"><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello! Thanks to the following e-mail I was able to perform an installation of Oracle Linux 8 on an IBM old server with ServeRaid 7k.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">After many difficulties (non bootable USB flash, bootable on other computers, using Rufus, Unetbootin, etc, than it booted ??), I was able to boot a OL 8.3 network installation image. Then, I selected the network repository for the latest (8.7) Oracle Linux and installed.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I can not thank these guys enough.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">After browsing through EL7 repo, I’ve even found a “dd-cciss” which I believe will work on an older HP DL380 G4 with smartarray 6i!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Out of curiosity, is there any documentation to understand the process of creating a diver such as this one?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you so much once again!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please let me know if there is a place where I can write some good words about this project </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">😉</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dave<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Akemi Yagi <<a href="mailto:toracat@elrepo.org" target="_blank">toracat@elrepo.org</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> 05 March 2023 21:46<br><b>To:</b> david <<a href="mailto:david@di.ubi.pt" target="_blank">david@di.ubi.pt</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [elrepo] kernel module for ServeRaid 7k (IBM/adaptec)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">You can download this one:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo/dud/el8/x86_64/dd-ips-7.12.05-1.el8_7.elrepo.iso" target="_blank">http://mirrors.coreix.net/elrepo/dud/el8/x86_64/dd-ips-7.12.05-1.el8_7.elrepo.iso</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Akemi<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:10 PM Akemi Yagi <<a href="mailto:toracat@elrepo.org" target="_blank">toracat@elrepo.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;margin:5pt 0cm 5pt 4.8pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Dave,<br><br>The following DUD iso file is currently syncing to the mirror sites:<br><br>dd-ips-7.12.05-1.el8_7.elrepo.iso<br><br>It's in the elrepo/dud/el8/x86_64/ directory. Please test if you can install EL 8.7 using this image.<br><br>Akemi<u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:43 PM david <<a href="mailto:david@di.ubi.pt" target="_blank">david@di.ubi.pt</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;margin:5pt 0cm 5pt 4.8pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi.<br>EL-8 would be great!<br>Thank you so much!<br>regards<br>Dave<br><br>On 2023-03-03 18:20, Akemi Yagi wrote:<br>> Got it.<br>> <br>> Since EL-7 will be EOL'd in a little over a year, I suppose you'd want<br>> to go for EL-8. We will try and see if we can provide the DUD.<br>> <br>> Akemi<br>> <br>> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 10:12 AM David Carvalho <<a href="mailto:david@di.ubi.pt" target="_blank">david@di.ubi.pt</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> <br>>> Hi, and thanks for the reply.<br>>> <br>>> 08:0e.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Adaptec ServeRAID Controller<br>>> [9005:0250] (rev 07)<br>>> <br>>> Regards<br>>> <br>>> Dave<br>>> <br>>> From: Akemi Yagi <<a href="mailto:toracat@elrepo.org" target="_blank">toracat@elrepo.org</a>><br>>> Sent: 03 March 2023 17:41<br>>> To: David Carvalho <<a href="mailto:david@di.ubi.pt" target="_blank">david@di.ubi.pt</a>>; EL Repo General Mailing List<br>>> <<a href="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org" target="_blank">elrepo@lists.elrepo.org</a>><br>>> Subject: Re: [elrepo] kernel module for ServeRaid 7k (IBM/adaptec)<br>>> <br>>> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 8:39 AM David Carvalho via elrepo<br>>> <<a href="mailto:elrepo@lists.elrepo.org" target="_blank">elrepo@lists.elrepo.org</a>> wrote:<br>>> <br>>>> Hello!<br>>>> <br>>>> Maybe someone can help me with this.<br>>>> <br>>>> I was using Oracle Linux 6 on an old server with a ServRaid 7k<br>>>> controller. When trying to install OL7 or OL8, the drives are not<br>>>> recognized. I know it was using IPS kernel module on OL6. I went<br>>>> to <a href="http://elrepo.org" target="_blank">elrepo.org</a> [1] to search for a suitable driver, but could not<br>>>> find anything appropriate. There are much more options for OL8.<br>>>> Does anyone know if any of those drivers allow the installation?<br>>>> In the meantime I've reinstalled oracle linux 6.5 but I don't know<br>>>> how to build/extract ips.ko or some source rpm to load into the<br>>>> installer. I've queried all installed packages but none provides<br>>>> information about this module and controller.<br>>>> <br>>>> How can I install OL7 or 8 into this server?<br>>>> <br>>>> Thanks and regards.<br>>>> <br>>>> Dave<br>>> <br>>> You would need a DUD image for the ips kernel module for the<br>>> installation.<br>>> <br>>> What is the device ID [xxxx:yyyy] (shown by "lspci -nn") ?<br>>> <br>>> Akemi<br>> <br>> <br>> Links:<br>> ------<br>> [1] <a href="http://elrepo.org" target="_blank">http://elrepo.org</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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