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- Page 1 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide HighPoint RR2720A RAID Controller Rocky Linux Installation Guide Copyright © 2023 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Last updated on April 17, 2023...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide Table of Contents 1 Overview ............................1 2 Installing Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A RAID controller ..........1 Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation................1 Step 2 Check System EFI Settings .................... 1 Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to RAID Controller ................ -
Page 3: Overview
RAID Controller support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR2720A 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. - Page 4 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide Disable "Secure Boot", set "Attempt Secure Boot" to "Disabled". 2. Set UEFI setting with GA-X570 AORUS MASTER motherboard as an example. a. Set " Boot->CSM Support " to "Enabled"; b. And" Boot-> Storage Boot Option Control " to "UEFI Only";...
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Page 5: Step 3 Flash Uefi Rom To Raid Controller
Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32. ： Unzip RR2720A 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 6: Step 4 Create Array
Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide Step 4 Create Array Attach two hard disks to RR2720A 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 7: Step 5 Prepare The Driver Diskette
Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette The directory named hptdd can be created in the USB flash drive and the driver RR272x _ 1x_ Rocky_Linux9.1 _x86_64 _ vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tgz can be extracted in the hptdd directory. - Page 8 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide Press Ctrl+ALT+F2 to switch to the shell on console and press Enter to activate this console. And then execute following commands to copy the driver contents: # mkdir /hptdd ← Create mount point for USB flash drive # mount /dev/sdb1 /hptdd/ ←...
- Page 9 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide 1) Set Root Password 2) Select Installation Destination and choose your own disk. Note：If not, please click “refresh” and choose your own disk. - 7 -...
- Page 10 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide Set Software Selection and choose Server with GUI→Development Tools h. When the screen shows that “Complete!”. - 8 -...
- Page 11 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide press Ctrl+ALT+F2 to the shell and type the following commands: # cp -r /tmp/hptdd /mnt/sysimage/tmp/hptdd # chroot /mnt/sysimage # sh /tmp/hptdd/rhel-install-step2.sh # rm -rf /tmp/hptdd # exit Press ALT+F6 and press Reboot System.
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Page 12: Monitoring The Driver
This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device list. 4 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR2720A RAID controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended. -
Page 13: Troubleshooting
When the system updates the kernel packages, the driver module rr272x_1x.ko should be built and installed manually before reboot. Please refer to the README file distributed with HighPoint RR2720A RAID Controller opensource package on how to build and install the driver module. - Page 14 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide 7 Appendix A Support command: help/info/quit/exit/create/delete Create Command Syntax Create Array Type (RAID0/1/10/5/50) Member Disk list (1/1, 1/2|*) Capacity (100|*) Note: The RR2720A controllers can support RAID0/1/10/5/50 Examples <<< create RAID0 <<< create RAID0 * <<<...
- Page 15 Linux Rocky Linux on RR2720A Installation Guide Delete the first array from Logical device list. <<< delete 2 Delete the second array from Logical device list. Info Command Syntax info Display physical device list and logical list Exit Command ...