HighPoint RocketRAID 2644X4 - Manual (Page 65)

Linux(Fedora,Red Hat,SuSE) Driver Support
“BOOT” or “HDD0” will be /dev/sda, “HDD1” will be /dev/sdb, “HDD2” will be /
dev/sdc, etc. When creating mount points, you must mount /boot on /dev sda.
2. For SuSE 8.2, if you choose GRUB as boot loader, it’s recommended to create a
separate partition for /boot. Otherwise the GRUB installation may fail.
3. The driver may work incorrectly on some specific motherboard, such as DFI77B
VIA KT400. You can type “acpi=off” when a prompted label “boot:” appears.
When “Error occurred while installing GRUB” dialog appears, you can change
boot loader from GRUB to LILO.
4. Since SuSE9.1 boot installation kernel does not load the driver for common floppy
controller during installation, so it is necessary to install a USB floppy drive to
load additional driver.
4. Installing SuSE10.x by loading driver from USB floppy controller, because the
device mapping order will not be the same as the installation time, please edit the
boot loader configuration file to boot the system normally.For example: During
installation time, USB disk is /dev/sda, RAID disk is /dev/sdb, so OS is installed
on the /dev/sdb. But after installation completion, RAID disk is changed to /dev/
sda, please modify the boot loader configure file and /etc/fstab to boot from /dev/
sda.
3 - Installing RR2644 Driver on an Existing System
If you are currently running Linux and would like to access drives or arrays attached
to the Rocket RAID 2644 controller, you can perform the following steps.
Note:
1. If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system, you must make sure the RR2644
controller BIOS will be loaded after that adapter’s BIOS. If not, try to move it to
another PCI slot. Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
2. The driver may work incorrectly on some specific motherboard, such as DFI77B
KT400. You can add “acpi=off” kernel parameter in the /boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
Step 1 Install the Driver Module
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