Onboard Sata (Esb2) Controller - Intel S5000PSLROMB Hardware Manual

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6.4 Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (or RHEL5 Update 1) on
RAID with onboard SATA (ESB2) Controller
Issue: Customer may find that Red Hat* 5.1 cannot be installed on S5000PSL under
ESRTII SATA RAID1.
Implication: There will be updated release notes for the installation of the ESRTII RAID
driver.
Guideline: Customer can perform the following steps to successfully install RHEL5 with an
onboard SATA Controller:
1. Create a RAID array using the Intel(R) Embedded Server RAID Technology II RAID
BIOS Console.
2. Connect a USB floppy drive and insert a floppy disk with RAID driver.
3. Boot your system using RHEL5.0 DVD.
4. At the boot prompt, type
linux dd noprobe=ata1 noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3 noprobe=ata4.
A page showing "loading usb-storage driver" displays and then asks, "Do you have
a driver disk?".
5. Choose "Yes".
It asks you to choose a driver disk.
6. Choose "sda" for the USB floppy disk and click OK to continue.
The message "Reading driver disk" displays. After it finishes, it asks, "Do you wish
to load any more driver disks?".
7. If you do not have any more driver disks to load, choose "No".
8. (If XEN mode feature is needed, the Operating System installation KEY is required
and then the XEN software package needs to be loaded). Continue with the RHEL
automatic installation.
In the page where you select the drives to be used for installation, you will only see
one disk (Intel MegaSR). This means that the raid is recognized.
At the last step of the installation (after all the packages are installed), RHEL5
prompts you to reboot. Do NOT click the Reboot button.
9. Press Ctr+Alt+F2 to go to the text console prompt.
10. Type "cat /proc/partitions".
Some information about the partition displays including several rows, with one row
for sdb. It displays as follows:
major
8
11. Type "mknod /dev/sdb b 8 16" (8 and 16 are copied from the major and minor
numbers in step 10).
12. Type "mkdir /temp".
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Intel® Server Boards S5000PSL/S5000XSL, Intel® Workstation Board
S5000XVN, and Intel® Server System SC5400RA
Not supported under Sun Solaris.
Driver is available from:
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s5000psl/index.htm
No driver required under Sun Solaris.
minor #blocks
16 1440
name
sdb
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