HighPoint RocketRAID 2340 - Manual (Page 61)

Linux Driver Support
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5. Next. Select “back” to return to the installer.
6. Installation will now proceed normally. Refer to SLES Linux documents for
additional OS installation procedures.
Additional Installation Notes:
The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RocketRAID
2340 BIOS Setting Utility. If no other SCSI adapters are installed, the device marked
as “BOOT” or “HDD0” will be identified as /dev/sda, “HDD1” as /dev/sdb, “HDD2”
as /dev/sdc, etc. When creating mount points, /boot must be mounted on /dev/sda.
2 - Installing the RocketRAID 2340 Driver on an Existing System
If you are currently running SLES and would like to access drives or arrays attached
to the RocketRAID 2340 controller, follow the steps outlined below:
Note: If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID 2340
controller BIOS loads/posts after the SCSI adapter’s BIOS. It may be necessary to
move the adapter(s) to another PCI slot.
Step 1 Update Grub
If you are running an SLES 9 SMP System, you must first update the /boot/grub/
menu.lst.
Example:
default=0
timeout=8
title Linux
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinux root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
Reboot the system to allow the new kernel parameters to take effect.