In this video, I’m going to show you how to install CentOS 8 or RHEL 8 on a system with a LSI SAS2008 SAS controller. This proves to be problematic since RedHat decided to remove the drivers for this SAS controller and several others. I discuss this issue in more detail, as well as show you how to workaround the problem using a driver disk image from the ELRepo repository.

Link to ELRepo repository: https://elrepo.org/linux/dud/el8/x86_64/

RedHat discussion about missing LSI drivers: https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3722151

1:00 – Discussion about the problem with RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
5:51 – ELRepo driver for SAS2008
9:09 – How to choose and download ELRepo driver for SAS2008
12:20 – Begin installation of CentOS 8.1
22:32 – CentOS 8.1 Post-installation
25:24 – Updating the new CentOS 8.1 installation
27:48 – Post-update discussion about ELRepo driver

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