I'm in the process of grabbing the CentOS 7.6 image to test myself, but you can toggle the specific RAID volume you want to make bootable from the device settings menu and selecting the PERC. Considering this is BIOS boot, you may want to look for Control + R and move over to "Controller Management." I believe the boot VD is in the bottom left portion of that screen.
Also, to add some info that might be relevant, in the initial menus of the RAID configuration, it asks you to choose either a Microsoft or Linux RAID. Microsoft is checked by default, but it wouldn't let me choose "Linux", although later on in the configuration menus it gave you a drop down list to choose from several different OSes to install.
I'm trying to install CentOS 7.6, but seemed to have better luck choosing the "any other operating system" than choosing "Redhat 7.5".
I was trying to configure the RAID through the lifecycle controller. It appeared that every time I tried to create a 2nd RAID config in the lifecycle controller, it blew away whatever existing RAID was there.
I tried configuring the RAID through the BIOS instead, in "device settings" I think it was, rebooted, and the original RAID 1 where I'd previously installed the OS still had everything on it and it booted into the OS no problem.
So it looks like it's booting correctly, I got the LVMs configured on the RAID 6, and it looks hunky dory now.
Glad to hear it, Phil. On a slight sidenote - the LCC is meant to deploy a single VD. It'll erase previous VDs each time. When you use that wizard, you either need to A) only create one VD for the deployment, and create the other virtual disks later, or B) create the virtual disks outside the OS deployment wizard of the LCC. I've seen this catch a number of folks.
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December 18th, 2018 09:00
Hi Phil,
I'm in the process of grabbing the CentOS 7.6 image to test myself, but you can toggle the specific RAID volume you want to make bootable from the device settings menu and selecting the PERC. Considering this is BIOS boot, you may want to look for Control + R and move over to "Controller Management." I believe the boot VD is in the bottom left portion of that screen.
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December 18th, 2018 09:00
Also, to add some info that might be relevant, in the initial menus of the RAID configuration, it asks you to choose either a Microsoft or Linux RAID. Microsoft is checked by default, but it wouldn't let me choose "Linux", although later on in the configuration menus it gave you a drop down list to choose from several different OSes to install.
I'm trying to install CentOS 7.6, but seemed to have better luck choosing the "any other operating system" than choosing "Redhat 7.5".
Phil.e
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December 18th, 2018 12:00
I was trying to configure the RAID through the lifecycle controller. It appeared that every time I tried to create a 2nd RAID config in the lifecycle controller, it blew away whatever existing RAID was there.
I tried configuring the RAID through the BIOS instead, in "device settings" I think it was, rebooted, and the original RAID 1 where I'd previously installed the OS still had everything on it and it booted into the OS no problem.
So it looks like it's booting correctly, I got the LVMs configured on the RAID 6, and it looks hunky dory now.
Thanks for the help
Dell-DylanJ
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December 18th, 2018 13:00
Glad to hear it, Phil. On a slight sidenote - the LCC is meant to deploy a single VD. It'll erase previous VDs each time. When you use that wizard, you either need to A) only create one VD for the deployment, and create the other virtual disks later, or B) create the virtual disks outside the OS deployment wizard of the LCC. I've seen this catch a number of folks.