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MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation User Guide 
June 2014
Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
Installing the Driver in a New Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x or 6.x OS
Chapter 3: Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
This chapter describes how to install the device driver in new Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, update the driver on
existing operating systems, and uninstall the driver.
Refer to the release notes that accompanied the driver for information on an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.
NOTE An optimized, single unified binary is provided for RHEL, CentOS, and
OEL operating systems.
3.1 Installing the Driver in a New Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x or 6.x OS
You can install the MegaRAID device driver in a new system from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD, DVD, or from a
driver update disk.
NOTE MegaRAID supports PPC 64 bit architecture for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6, but the preboot application is not supported due to the PPC
BIOS limitations.
NOTE Do not install the operating system on the PPC virtual drive for the PPC
64 bit architecture.
3.1.1 Installing from a CD or a DVD
Perform the following steps to install the MegaRAID device driver in a new Red Hat Linux OS from the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux installation media:
1. Refer to your system documentation, if needed, and boot the server with the installation CD or DVD.
2. Follow the installation procedure for the Red Hat OS.
If you do not provide a driver disk at boot time, the driver is loaded automatically during the installation process.
3.1.2 Creating a Driver Update Disk (DUD) with a USB Drive
You can transfer a driver disk image to a USB drive with the rawrite tool from DOS, or the dd utility in Linux. The URL
for the rawrite tool is
http://www.tux.org/pub/dos/rawrite . On a Linux machine, you can use the dd command to burn
a driver ISO image on a USB drive.
Perform the following steps to create a DUD with a USB drive.
1. Insert a USB stick into a Linux machine, making sure that the USB drive is not mounted.
2. Type the following command:
"$ dd if= of=/dev/sdx"
where /dev/sdx is the USB drive.
NOTE Ensure that you pick the correct DUD image from the LSI release
bundle. The DUD image should match with the installed OS kernel
version.
3. Press Enter.
4. Mount the USB stick to verify its contents.
5. Make sure the DUD image is in iso9660 format or msdos format by typing the following command: