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Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide
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Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide
RR640L/620L Controller
Linux Debian
Installation Guide
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Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide
Last updated on May 8, 2023

Linux Debian on RR640L/620L Installation Guide
Table of Contents
1 Overview..........................................................................................................................................1
2 Installing Linux Debian on RR Series RAID controller 1
Step 1 Prepare Your ardware for Installation...........................................................................1
Step 2 Check System EFI Settings.............................................................................................1
Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to RR Series RAID Controller............................................................3
Step 4 Create Array.....................................................................................................................4
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette.............................................................................................5
Step 6 Install Linux Debian........................................................................................................5
3 Installing RAID Management Software 9
4 Troubleshooting 9
5 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update 10
6 Appendix A 11
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1 Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install Linux
Debian on the RR Series RAID controller.
Supported system: Debian10.1/10.2/10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6/10.7/10.8/10.9/11.3/
11.4/11.5/11.6
Supported controller: RR640L/620L
2 Installing Linux Debian on RR Series RAID
controller
If you would like to install Linux Debian 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 ard 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/PnP Configuration->CPUSlot PCI-E OPROM"
to "EFI". Suppose 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 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";
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c. Set "OS Type" to "Other OS".
Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to RR Series RAID Controller
For Example RR640L：
Note ： Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32.
a. Unzip RR640L 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;
c. Command with “rr640l.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to RR640L Controller and reboot;
For RR620L:
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Command with“go.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to RR620L Controller and reboot:
Step 4 Create Array
a. Attach three hard disks to RR640L 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.
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e. Command “exit”；
f. For more command usages, refer to Appendix A.
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette
Extract RR640l_debian_11 6 0_x86_64_vx x x_xx_xx_xx tar gz to top (/) directory of an
USB flash drive. It will look like:
Step 6 Install Linux Debian
a Before you do the following, verify the status of your network environment To
ensure a proper installation, it is recommended to disconnect the network and install
the system in a network less environment
b. Insert the Bootable USB drive to the target system.
c. Booting from Bootable USB drive (EFI mode).
d. When the Installation screen appears, press ‘Graphical Install’ to start.
e. When the following window appears, if your motherboard is in UEFI mode, click YES
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f. When the following window appears during the installation process,
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/ ← Mount the USB flash drive to /hptdd
# cp -a /hptdd /tmp/ ← Copy driver installation file to system temporary
directory
# umount /hptdd ← 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
Debian.
# sh /tmp/hptdd/preinst sh ← Load driver.
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g. Then press “Ctrl+ALT+F5” to switch back to installation screen and continue the
installation as usual
h. Now click the “Go Back” button to detect the disk.
i. Now click the “Detect disks” button and “Continue” to detect the disk.
j. When the screen shows that “Finish the installation”.
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press “Ctrl+ALT+F2” to the shell and type the following commands:
#sudo sh /tmp/hptdd/postinst sh ← Install driver.
A message will be displayed that the driver has been installed successfully.
k. Press “Ctrl+ALT+F5” to switch back to installation screen and finish the installation.
l. If you want to boot from another kernel, please install the RR Series opensource driver
after entering the system.
m. Restart to enter the system, please connect to the internet:
1. Linux opensource driver link, open the following link to enter the "Software
Download"
page to download:
RR620L/640L Series: https://www.highpoint-tech.com/rr600-overview
2. Please execute the following command before installing the driver
# umount /dev/sda1
# mount /dev/sda1 /media/cdrom
Note: sda1 is Bootable USB drive, the default repository path is cdrom, so we need to adjust
the ISO image mount path to /mnt/cdrom
# apt install gcc
# apt install make
# apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
3. Extract driver package:
tar zxvf RR64xx_Linux_X86_64_Src_vx xx xx_xx_xx_xx tar gz
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4. Run the bin file to install the driver package.
sh rr64xx_linux_x86_64_src_vxx x x_xx_xx_xx bin or
/ rr64xx_linux_x86_64_src_vxx x x_xx_xx_xx bin
n. Follow the prompts to complete the driver installation.
o. After the installation is complete, you can perform system update operations.
3 Installing RAID Management Software
ighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard
disks and RAID arrays attached to RR Series RAID controller. Installation of the management
software is optional but recommended.
Please refer to ighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.
4 Troubleshooting
If you do not install the system or update the kernel according to the installation manual, the
system will crash and you will not be able to enter. Please follow the steps below.
a. Select the default (kernel: 5.10.0-20-amd64) and enter the system.
b. Install Linux Opensource driver.
c. Linux Opensource driver link, open the following link to enter the "Software
Download" page to download:
RR620L/640L Series: https://www.highpoint-tech.com/rr600-overview
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Run the bin file to install the driver package.
sh rr64xx_linux_x86_64_src_vxx x x_xx_xx_xx bin or
/ rr64xx_linux_x86_64_src_vxx x x_xx_xx_xx bin
d. Follow the prompts to complete the driver installation.
e. After the installation is complete, you can perform system update operations.
5 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update
When the system updates the kernel packages, the driver module rr640l.ko should be built
and installed manually before reboot.
Please refer to the README file distributed with RR Series RAID Controller opensource
package on how to build and install the driver module.
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6 Appendix A
Support command: help/info/quit/exit/create/delete
Create Command
Syntax
Create Array Type (RAID0/1/10/5) Member Disk list (1/1, 1/2|*) Capacity
(100|*)
Note:
The RR6 0L controllers can support RAID0/1/10/5
The 620Lcontrollers can support RAID0/1
Examples
<<< create RAID0
<<< create RAID0 *
<<< create RAID0 * *
Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.
<<< create RAID1 1/1, 1/3 10
Create RAID1 array with disk 1/1 and 1/3 and with 10GB capacity.
<<< create RAID10 *
Create RAID10 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.
<<< create RAID5 *
Create RAID5 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.
Delete Command
Syntax
delete {array ID}
Examples
<<< delete 1
Delete the first array from Logical device list.
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<<< delete 2
Delete the second array from Logical device list.
Info Command
Syntax
info
Display physical device list and logical list
Exit Command
Syntax
Q/q/quit/exit
Quit the application
Help Command
Syntax
/h/help
This is help message.
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