HighPoint SSD7000 Series User manual

Linux Rocky Linux on SSD7540/7505/7502/7202/7105 Installation Guide
SSD7000 Controller
Linux Rocky Linux
Installation Guide
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Last updated on April 24, 2023

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Table of Contents
1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................1
2 Installing Linux Rocky Linux on SSD7000 controller ..............................................................1
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation..........................................................................1
Step 2 Check System EFI Settings............................................................................................1
Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7000 ........................................................................................3
Step 4 Create Array ...................................................................................................................4
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette............................................................................................4
Step 6 Install Rocky Linux........................................................................................................5
3 Monitoring the Driver ...............................................................................................................10
4 Installing RAID Management Software...................................................................................10
5 Trouble Shooting ........................................................................................................................10
6 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update ........................................................................ 11
7 Appendix A ................................................................................................................................. 11

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1 Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install Linux
Rocky Linux on the SSD7000 controller.
Supported system: Rocky Linux 8.6/8.7/9.0/9.1
Supported controller: SSD7540/7505/7502/7202/7105
2 Installing Linux Rocky Linux on SSD7000
controller
If you would like to install Linux Rocky Linux onto drives attached to SSD7000 controller,
please perform the following operations:
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation
After you attach your NVMe SSD to SSD7000 controller, you can use SSD7000 EFI
Utility to configure your NVMe SSD as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the NVMe SSD, which are not physically attached
to SSD7000 controller, from your system.
Note
SSD7000 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must
make sure the SSD7000 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 SSD7000 RAID controller 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 SSD7000 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 SSD7000
For Example SSD7505：
Note
： Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32.
For other products, please refer to: Update UEFI ROM
a. Unzip SSD7000 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 “go.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to SSD7000 Controller and reboot;

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Step 4 Create Array
a. Attach two NVMe SSD to SSD7000 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.
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette
Extract HighPoint_NVMe_Rocky_Linuxxx.xx_x86_64_vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top(/)
directory of an USB flash drive. It will look like:

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Step 6 Install Rocky Linux
For Example：Rocky Linux9.1
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 USB flash drive to the target system.
c. Booting from Bootable USB drive (EFI mode).
d. When the Installation screen appears, press ‘e’ to edit boot command line option.
On the edit command window, move the cursor to the end of line "linuxefi /images /
pxeboot... ", and append "modprobe.blacklist=nvme " (double quotation mark are not
include).
Press CTRL+X or F10 to start the system.
e. When the following window appears during the installation process,
Press CTRL+ALT+F2 to switch to the shell on console 2, and press ENTER to activate
this console.
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

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#cp -a /hptdd/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
Rocky Linux.
# sh /tmp/hptdd/ rhel-install-step1.sh ← Load SSD7000 driver.
f. Then press ALT+F6to switch back to installation screen and continue the installation as
usual.
g. When the following window appears during the installation process,
1) Set Root Password
2) Select Installation Destination and click “refresh”

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then choose your own disk.
3) Set Software Selection and choose Server with GUI→Development Tools

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Then begin installation.
h. If the following information is displayed during the installation, select “Ye s ”.
i. 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 ←Copy the driver installation file to
SSD7000
# chroot /mnt/sysimage ←Switch to the top(/) directory in the SSD7000 system
# sh /tmp/hptdd/rhel-install-step2.sh ← Install SSD7000 driver
# rm -rf /tmp/hptdd ← Delete the driver file in SSD7000
# exit ← Exit the top(/) directory of the SSD7000 system