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I have experience with Installation and configuration of Windows Server system. I am trying to install CentOS 6.5 on the above mentioned HP box and the installation process goes on without a hitch. Once it is done and reboots, it does not see the boot partitions. When I attempt to re-do the install I notice the earlier partitions are there but the mount points are missing. I have also tried Fedora 18 on the same box.

This is a machine that used to run Windows 2008 without any issues. (HDDs were reformated for a clean start)

I would also like to mention that even if I configure RAID using HP's Smart Array tool on Centos during installation it still shows the two separate physical drives. I removed all other hard drives so that there is only one to work with but still the same result.

How can I get centOS or Fedora installed onto HP Ml310e Gen8?

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Please see the links and answers at: HP DL380e Linux not seeing drive array for installation

You're running into a RAID controller and drive incompatibility of this server. The Dynamic Smart Array RAID controller installed on the machine requires a binary-driver that needs to be slipstreamed into your installation.

There's a driver-disk available for this.

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Little bit late, but I had same problem while installing centos 7. My HP ProLiant machine has two HP Smart Array and I install the boot partition on one of them and my machine configured to boot with other. So I changed the primary boot drive to the one that boot partition was installed on (to change primary boot drive in smary array configuration menu which you can open it with pressing f8 while smart array initalization during boot). After I restarted the machine, it could be boot and grub menu was opened.

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