HighPoint RocketRAID 2210 User Manual
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Linux Driver Support
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2)
At the “Welcome to Fedora Linux” installation screen, a prompt labeled “boot:”
will appear at the bottom of the screen. Type in linux dd update, then press
ENTER.
boot: linux dd
3)
When prompted “Do you have a driver disk?”, select “Yes”. At the “Insert your
driver disk and press OK to continue” prompt, insert the driver diskette in the
floppy drive and then select “OK”.
4)
The system will now load the RocketRAID 2210 driver automatically.
3 - Installing the RocketRAID 2210 driver for an Existing System
Note: If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID 2210
controller BIOS loads/posts after the SCSI adapter’s BIOS. It may be necessary to
move the adapter(s) to another PCI slot.
Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module
Extract the module file from the file modules.cgz (from the driver disk) using the
following commands:
# mount /dev/fd0
# cd /tmp
# gzip -dc /media/floppy/modules.cgz | cpio -idumv
Driver modules for all supported kernel versions will be extracted. The driver module
for the active kernel is located under the directory that matches the kernel version (/
tmp/‘uname –r‘/i686/rr2210.ko).
After extracting the driver module, load it using the following commands: