HighPoint RocketRAID 2644X4 - Manual (Page 55)

Linux(Fedora,Red Hat,SuSE) Driver Support
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1 - Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and
use RR2644 Controller on Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS Linux system.
2 - Installing Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS Linux on
RR2644 controller
If you would like to install Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS Linux onto drives attached to
RR2644 controller, please perform the following operations:
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation
After you attach your hard disks to RR2644 controller, you can use RR2644 BIOS
Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single
disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not physically
attached to RR2644 controller, from your system.
Note: If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR2644
controller BIOS will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot.
Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings
In your system BIOS SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the
system will first boot from floppy or CDROM, and then from SCSI. Refer to your BIOS
manual to see how to set boot sequence.
If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to
boot from floppy or CDROM. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot
device to boot up the system.
Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette
Driver is provided in floppy diskette image file format.
On a DOS or Windows system, you can make the Red Hat driver diskette using