Installing CentOS 8 on a Dell PowerEdge R610
Updated 2020-08-10, see edit below
I recently had to upgrade a CentOS 7 server to CentOS 8. I foolishly expected this to be easy since it wasn't a heavily customized install in the first place and most of the stuff I cared about was in my home directory. I was, as you may have guessed, wrong.
The problem was that CentOS 8 removed the driver for the Dell H700 RAID controller in my server. Setting aside the wisdom of that decision, here's how to get around it:
