Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide Table of Contents 1 Overview ............................1 2 Installing Linux Debian 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 ................3 Step 4 Create Array ........................
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.
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Linux Debian 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";...
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;...
Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide Command with “rr2720.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to RR2720A Controller and reboot; 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”...
Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide Command “exit”; For more command usages, refer to Appendix Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette The directory named hptdd can be created in the USB flash drive and the driver RR3740a _ debian_11.6.0 _x86_64 _ vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz can be extracted in the hptdd directory.
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Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide 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/ ←...
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Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide h. Now click the “Detect disks” button and “Continue” to detect the disk. When the screen shows that “Finish the installation”. press “Ctrl+ALT+F2” to the shell and type the following commands: # sh /tmp/hptdd/postinst.sh ←...
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Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide Press “ALT+F5” to switch back to installation screen and finish the installation. k. If you want to boot from another kernel, please install the RR2700 Series opensource driver after entering the system. Restart to enter the system, please connect to the internet: 01.
Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide 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 RR2720A RAID Controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended.
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.
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Linux Debian on RR2720A Installation Guide Delete Command Syntax delete {array ID} Examples <<< delete 1 Delete the first array from Logical device list. <<< delete 2 Delete the second array from Logical device list. Info Command Syntax...