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MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation User Guide

June 2014

Solaris 10 x86, Solaris 11, and Solaris Express x86 Driver Installation

Supported Operating Systems

8.3

Supported Operating Systems

This driver supports the Solaris10 and Solaris11 OSs on both the x86 platform and the SPARC platform. The following
driver binaries (built natively) are included in this driver distribution (.zip file) and the corresponding supported OSs.

Solaris 11 and Solaris 11-U1 (x86) OSs

Use the driver package under the directory intel/solaris11/.

Solaris 10-U9 and Solaris 10-U10 (x86) OSs

Use the driver package under the directory intel/solaris10-u9/.

Solaris 10-U8 (x86) OS

Use the driver package under the directory intel/solaris10-u8/.

Solaris 11 and Solaris 11-U1 (SPARC) OSs,

Use the driver package under the directory sparc/solaris11/.

Solaris 10-U9 and Solaris 10-U10 (SPARC) OSs

Use the driver package under the directory sparc/solaris10-u9/.

8.4

Installing the Driver Package During OS Installation (Solaris10 OS, x86 Only)

Perform the following procedure to install the Solaris 10 OS on any of the supported LSI MegaRAID controllers as a
boot-controller (primary storage).

1.

Boot the Solaris installation to the following menu:

a.

Solaris Interactive (default)

b.

Custom JumpStart

c.

Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop session)

d.

Solaris Interactive Text (Console session)

e.

Apply driver updates

f.

Single user shell

2.

Enter the number of your choice.

3.

Select option 5, Apply driver updates.

4.

Insert the LSI driver CD, and choose the CD/DVD option at the following prompt:

Insert media and enter media type:

Floppy, CD/DVD or End

The following messages indicate that the driver is successfully installed:

extracting software on cd

installing driver update in the miniroot

5.

After applying the driver, the Solaris OS returns to the following prompt:

Insert media and enter media type:

Floppy, CD/DVD or End

6.

Select End.

The Solaris OS continues with the installation.

7.

Re-insert the Solaris media when prompted to complete this step and proceed with the installation.