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Linux RHEL on RR3740/3720/2840/840/3742/710/720 Installation Guide
HighPoint RR3700/2800/800/R700
RAID Controller
Linux RHEL
Installation Guide
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Last updated on July 10, 2023

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Table of Contents
1 Overview.......................................................................................................................................1
2 Installing Linux RHELon RR Series 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...................................................................................................................4
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette............................................................................................5
Step 6 Install RHEL..................................................................................................................5
3 Monitoring the Driver ...............................................................................................................10
4 Installing RAID Management Software...................................................................................10
5 Troubleshooting..........................................................................................................................10
6 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update........................................................................11
7 Appendix A .................................................................................................................................12

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1 Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install Linux
RHEL on the RR Series RAID controller.
Supported system: RHEL7.2/7.3/7.9/8.3/8.5/8.6/8.7/9.0/9.1
Supported controller: RR3740/3720/2840/840/3742/710/720
2 Installing Linux RHEL on RR Series RAID
controller
If you would like to install Linux RHEL onto drives attached to RR Series RAID controller,
please perform the following operations:
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation
After you attach your hard disks to RAID controller, you can use EFI Utility to configure
your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the Hard disks, which are not physically attached
to RAID controller, from your system.
Note
RAID Controller support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must
make sure the RR Series 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.
Step 2 Check System EFI Settings
In your system EFI SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system
will first boot from EFI CDROM or EFI a Bootable USB drive, after you finish
installation, set RR Series RAID as the first boot device to boot up the system. Refer to
your motherboard EFI manual to see how to set boot sequence.
1. Set UEFI setting with SuperMicro X11DPi-NT motherboard as an example.
a. "Advanced->PCIe/PCI/PnPConfiguration->CPUSlot PCI-E OPROM"
to "EFI". Suppose RAID Controller is connected to motherboard CPU1 Slot 2
PCI-E X16, then you should set "CPU1 Slot 2 PCI-E X16 OPROM" to "EFI";

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b. 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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3. Set UEFI setting with ASUS PRIME X299 -DELUXE motherboard as an example:
a. Set "Boot from Storage Devices" to "UEFI driver first";
b. And "Boot Device Control" to "UEFI Only" or "UEFI and Legacy OPROM";
c. Set "OS Type" to "Other OS".
Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to RAID Controller
For Example RR3740C：
For other products, please refer to: Update BIOS_ UEFI ROM
Note ： Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32.
a. Unzip RR3740C UEFI package to root dir(/) of a USB flash drive, and insert the
USB flash drive to the motherboard;
b. Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment;

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c. Command with “rr3740.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to RR3740C Controller and reboot;
Step 4 CreateArray
a. Attach two hard disks to RR3740C Controller;
b. Boot, enter the motherboard’s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash:
c. Command “ArrayCreate.efi”to enter the Utility:
d. Command “create RAID0”.
Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.
e. Command “exit”；
f. For more command usages, refer to Appendix A.

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RR3742/3720/710/720/2840/840 also supports the creation method of BIOS/UEFI HII.
Please refer to UM-Chapter 4
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette
Extract RR37xx_8xx_28xx_RHELx.x _x86_64_vx.xx.xx_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top(/)
directory of an USB flash drive. It will look like:
Step 6 Install RHEL
For Example：RHEL9.1
a. Insert the USB flash drive to the target system.
b. Booting from Bootable USB drive (EFI mode).
c. When the following window appears during the installation process,
Press Ctrl+ALT+F2to 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/sda1 /hptdd/ ← Mount the USB flash drive to /hptdd

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#cp -a /hptdd/hptdd /tmp/ ← Copy driver installation file to system temporary
directory
# umount /dev/sda1 ← Unmount the USB flash drive
When the USB flash drive is unmounted, please unplug the USB flash drive from the
mainboard. And then execute following command to install driver to install the Linux
RHEL.
# sh /tmp/hptdd/rhel-install-step1.sh ← Load RR3740C driver.
d. Then press “ALT+F6”to switch back to installation screen and Choose language.
e. When the following window appears during the installation process,

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1) Set Software Selection and choose Server with GUI→Development Tools
2) Select Installation Destination and click “refresh”, but if you didn't find this option,
you can press Ctrl+ALT+F2 to the shell and type # restart-anaconda
then choose your own disk and begin installation.

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3) Set Root Password
f. When the screen shows that “Complete!”.
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