Overview; Installing Linux Centos7.8 On Ssd7202 Controller; Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware For Installation; Step 2 Check System Efi Settings - HighPoint SSD7202 Installation Manual

SSD7202 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide

1 Overview

The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install Linux
CentOS7.8 on the SSD7202 controller.
For CentOS7.8 (kernel: 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64)
Mirror link:
https://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/centos/7.8.2003/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2003.iso
MD5: ef8195f42f30a23f039eef9891d496ae

2 Installing Linux CentOS7.8 on SSD7202 controller

If you would like to install Linux CentOS7.8 onto drives attached to SSD7202 controller,
please perform the following operations:

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation

After you attach your NVMe SSD to SSD7202 controller, you can use SSD7202 EFI
Utility to configure your NVMe SSD as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the NVMe SSD, which are not physically
attached to SSD7202 controller, from your system.
Note
SSD7202 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must
make sure the SSD7202 controller EFI will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to
another PCI slot. Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.

Step 2 Check System EFI Settings

In your system EFI SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system
will first boot from EFI CDROM, and then from SSD7202 RAID. Refer to your
motherboard EFI manual to see how to set boot sequence.
If your EFI settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to boot from
EFI CDROM. After you finish installation, set SSD7202 RAID as the first boot device to
boot up the system.
1. Set UEFI setting with SuperMicro X11DPi-NT motherboard as an example:
Set 'Boot mode select' to 'UEFI';
a.
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