PowerEdge r730xd Installing CentOS 6.7

For the first time formally installed Linux on a server, the mood is still some excitement, in order to hope that can not trouble, the night before yesterday to find some think there may be problems.

Environment: POWEREDGE r730xd

Array Card H730mini

12 6T SAS HDD

System: CentOS 6.7

The problems that you think will arise in the early days:

Configuration of the array card raid,

Large hard disk partitioning problem (MBR, GPT)

is booting with UEFI or legacy bios;

Whether the installed system can load the array card driver

Installation system:

1. Configure the array card, the system is UEFI boot by default, the configuration of the array card and the interface of the official website, the boot mode to the BIOS can be

Http://www.dell.com/support/article/cn/zh/cndhs1/SLN287731/ZH

2. The difference between UEFI boot and BIOS boot is not understood, as a large RAID group hard drive must be uefi+gpt, but after the raid is done, the boot boot entry does not have an array card to boot, and the array card configuration there will also indicate that this only supports legacy BIOS boot, Change the boot mode to BIOS to find the array boot from the boot boot entry.

3. Press F11 to select the U-disk start, load the CentOS installation interface, Next, next, also find the hard disk, according to the requirements of the partition on the end of the first server installation system tour

Tail:

UEFI + GPT

BIOS + GPT

Large hard disk RAID is the system and data separate good, or all disks made into raid, leaving a hot spare.

PowerEdge r730xd Installing CentOS 6.7