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- Page 1 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide Revision History Date Internal Official Editor HPT_U Description 2023/4/12 V0.10 V1.00 Init version...
- Page 2 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide RR640L/620L Controller Linux Debian Installation Guide Copyright © 2023 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Page 3 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide Last updated on May 8, 2023...
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide Table of Contents 1 Overview............................1 2 Installing Linux Debian on RR Series RAID controller............1 Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation................1 Step 2 Check System EFI Settings.....................1 Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to RR Series RAID Controller............3 Step 4 Create Array........................4... -
Page 5: Overview
Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install Linux Debian on the RR Series RAID controller. Supported system: Debian10.1/10.2/10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9/11.3/ 11.4/11.5/11.6 Supported controller: RR640L/620L 2 Installing Linux Debian on RR Series RAID... - Page 6 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide Disable "Secure Boot", set "Attempt Secure Boot" to "Disabled". Set UEFI setting with ASUS PRIME X299 -DELUXE motherboard as an example: Set "Boot from Storage Devices" to "UEFI driver first"; And "Boot Device Control" to "UEFI Only" or "UEFI and Legacy OPROM";...
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Page 7: Step 3 Flash Uefi Rom To Rr Series Raid Controller
Note ： Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32. Unzip RR640L UEFI package to root dir(/) of a USB flash drive, and insert the USB flash drive to the motherboard; Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment;... -
Page 8: Step 4 Create Array
Command with“go.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to RR620L Controller and reboot: Step 4 Create Array Attach three hard disks to RR640L Controller; Boot, enter the motherboard’s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash: Command “ArrayCreate.efi” to enter the Utility: Command “create RAID0”. -
Page 9: Step 5 Prepare The Driver Diskette
Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide Command “exit”； For more command usages, refer to Appendix A. Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette Extract RR640l_debian_11.6.0_x86_64_vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top (/) directory of an USB flash drive. It will look like: Step 6 Install Linux Debian a. - Page 10 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide When the following window appears during the installation process, Press "Ctrl+ALT+F2" to switch to the shell on console 2, and the then execute following commands to copy the driver contents: # mkdir /hptdd ← Create mount point for USB flash drive # mount /dev/sda1 /hptdd/ ←...
- Page 11 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide g. Then press “Ctrl+ALT+F5” to switch back to installation screen and continue the installation as usual. h. Now click the “Go Back” button to detect the disk. Now click the “Detect disks” button and “Continue” to detect the disk.
- Page 12 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide press “Ctrl+ALT+F2” to the shell and type the following commands: #sudo sh /tmp/hptdd/postinst.sh ← Install driver. A message will be displayed that the driver has been installed successfully. k. Press “Ctrl+ALT+F5” to switch back to installation screen and finish the installation.
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Page 13: Installing Raid Management Software
After the installation is complete, you can perform system update operations. 3 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR Series RAID controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended. -
Page 14: Rebuilding Driver Module For System Update
After the installation is complete, you can perform system update operations. 5 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update When the system updates the kernel packages, the driver module rr640l.ko should be built and installed manually before reboot. Please refer to the README file distributed with RR Series RAID Controller opensource package on how to build and install the driver module. - Page 15 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide 6 Appendix A Support command: help/info/quit/exit/create/delete Create Command Syntax Create Array Type (RAID0/1/10/5) Member Disk list (1/1, 1/2|*) Capacity (100|*) Note: The RR640L controllers can support RAID0/1/10/5 The 620Lcontrollers can support RAID0/1 Examples <<<...
- Page 16 Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide <<< delete 2 Delete the second array from Logical device list. Info Command Syntax info Display physical device list and logical list Exit Command Syntax Q/q/quit/exit Quit the application Help Command ...