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HighPoint RocketRAID 2644X4 User Manual

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Linux(Fedora,Red Hat,SuSE) Driver Support

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3. When prompted “Do you have a driver disk?”. Select “Yes”. When prompted

Insert your driver disk and press OK to continue”, insert the driver diskette in

the floppy drive and then select “OK”.

4. The system will load RR2644 driver automatically. Continue the installation as

normal.

5. When asked “where do you want to install the boot loader? ” in the “Boot Loader

Configuration” dialog, you must select “Master Boot Record (MBR)” to make

your system be able to boot RR2644 controller.

6. Continue the installation as normal. You can refer to Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS

Linux installation guide.

Note:

1. The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RR2644

BIOS Setting Utility.

2. On some system the LILO boot loader may be installed incorrectly unless you

specify BIOS parameters in /etc/lilo.conf. During installation, when prompted

“Would you like to create a boot disk for your system?”, switch to console 2 by

pressing ++F2. Then use the following command:

# chroot /mnt/sysimage

# vi /etc/lilo.conf

Add two lines under the line ”boot=/dev/sda”:

disk=/dev/sda

bios=0x80

# /sbin/lilo

Press ++F1 to continue the installation.