HighPoint RocketRAID 2210 - Manual (Page 56)

Linux Driver Support
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5. The system will now load the RocketRAID 2210 driver automatically.
6. When prompted “Where do you want to install the boot loader? ” in the “Boot
Loader Configuration” dialog, select “Master Boot Record (MBR)” to instruct
the system be to boot from the RocketRAID 2210.
Continue the installation as normal. You can refer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux installa-
tion guide.
Note:
The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RocketRAID
2210 BIOS Setting Utility. If no other SCSI adapters are installed, the device marked
as “BOOT” or “HDD0”will identified as /dev/sda, “HDD1” as /dev/sdb, “HDD2” as /
dev/sdc, etc. When creating mount points, /boot must be mounted on /dev/sda.
2 - 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 /mnt/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‘/rr2210.ko).
After you have extracted the driver module, you can load it by following commands: