HighPoint RocketRAID 2522 - Manual (Page 55)

Linux Driver Support
When prompted “Where do you want to install the boot loader? ” in the “Boot
Loader Configuration” dialog, select “Master Boot Record (MBR)” to
instruct the system be to boot from the RocketRAID host adapter.
Continue the installation as normal. You can refer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
installation guide.
Note:
1. The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RocketRAID
BIOS
Setting Utility. If no other SCSI adapters are installed, the device marked as
“BOOT” or “HDD0”will identified as /dev/sda, “HDD1” as /dev/sdb, “HDD2” as
/dev/sdc, etc. When creating mount points, /boot must be mounted on /dev/sda.
3 - Installing the RocketRAID 2522 driver for an
Existing System
Note: If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID host
adapter BIOS loads/posts after the SCSI adapter’s BIOS. It may be necessary to
move the adapter(s) to another PCI slot.
Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module
Extract the module file from the file modules.cgz (from the driver disk) using the
following commands:
# mount /dev/fd0
# cd /tmp
# gzip -dc /mnt/floppy/modules.cgz | cpio -idumv
Driver modules for all supported kernel versions will be extracted. The driver module
for the active kernel is located under the directory that matches the kernel version (/
tmp/‘uname –r‘/rr2522.ko).
After you have extracted the driver module, you can load it by following commands:
# modprobe sd_mod
# insmod rr2522.ko
Arrays attached to the adapter can be accessed as SCSI devices (e.g. /dev/sda).
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