Rocketraid 2680 User manual

RocketRAID 2680 Fedora Linux Installation Guide

RocketRAID

RocketRAID 2680

2680

2680 SAS

SAS

SAS Controller

Controller

Fedora

Fedora Linux

Linux

Installation

Installation Guide

Guide

Version

1. 1

Last updated on June 6, 2012

RocketRAID 2680 Fedora Linux Installation Guide

i

Table

Table of

of

of Contents

Contents

1

1 Overview

Overview

Overview .......................................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................................

....................................................................................................................... 1

1

2

2 Installing

Installing

Installing Fedora

Fedora

Fedora Linux

Linux

Linux on

on

on RR2680

RR2680

RR2680 controller

controller

controller .................................................................

.................................................................

................................................................. 1

1

Step 1 Prepare

Your

Hardware for Installation ................................................................. 1

Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings .............................................................................. 1

Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette ................................................................................. 1

Step 4 Install Fedora Linux ........................................................................................... 2

3

3 Installing

Installing

Installing RR2680

RR2680

RR2680 driver

driver

driver on

on

on an

an

an Existing

Existing

Existing System

System

System ..............................................................

..............................................................

.............................................................. 6

6

Step 1 Obtain and install the Driver Module .................................................................... 6

Step 2 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup ................................................ 6

4

4 Monitoring

Monitoring

Monitoring the

the

the Driver

Driver

Driver ....................................................................................................

....................................................................................................

.................................................................................................... 6

6

5

5 Updating

Updating

Updating the

the

the Driver

Driver

Driver .......................................................................................................

.......................................................................................................

....................................................................................................... 7

7

6

6 Installing

Installing

Installing RAID

RAID

RAID Management

Management

Management Software

Software

Software ...........................................................................

...........................................................................

........................................................................... 7

7

7 Rebuilding

Rebuilding

Rebuilding Driver

Driver

Driver Module

Module

Module for

for

for System

System

System Update

Update

Update .................................................................

.................................................................

................................................................. 7

7

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1

1 Overview

Overview

The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use

RocketRAID

RocketRAID Controller on Fedora Linux system .

2

2 Installing

Installing

Installing Fedora

Fedora

Fedora Linux

Linux

Linux on

on

on RR2680

RR2680

RR2680 controller

controller

If you would like to install Fedora Linux onto drives attached to RR2680 controller, please

perform the following operations:

Step

Step 1

1

1 Prepar

Prepar

Prepar e

e

Your

Hardware

for

Installation

After you attach your hard disks to RR2680 controller, you can use RR2680 BIOS Setting

Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.

Before installation, you must remove

all

the disk drives , which are not physically attached

to RR2680 controller , from your system.

Note

If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR2680 controller

BIOS 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

Step 2

2

2 Check

Check

Check System

System

System BIOS

BIOS

BIOS Settings

Settings

In your system BIOS SETUP menu , change B

B

B oot

oot

oot S

S

S equence

equence

in

such a way that the system

will first boot from floppy or CDROM, and then from SCSI. Refer to your BIOS manual to

see how to set boot sequence.

If your BIOS setting s do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set

it

to boot from

floppy or CDROM. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot device to boot

up the system.

Step

Step 3

3

3 Prepar

Prepar

Prepar e

e

e the

the

the Driver

Driver

Driver Diskette

Diskette

In the following document, the floppy diskette stands for the f loppy diskette which is

inserted into the on-board floppy controller, the USB floppy diskette stands for the floppy

diskette inserted into the USB floppy controller, the USB diskette stands for USB flash

disk and USB harddisk, the USB storage stands for USB diskette and USB floppy

controller.

Put the diver files on a (USB) floppy diskette.

Windows

:

Create a MS-DOS filesystem and extract the archive file to the (USB) floppy diskette.

Linux:

#

# mkdosfs

mkdosfs

mkdosfs /dev/fd0

/dev/fd0

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#

# mkdir

mkdir

mkdir -p

-p

-p /mnt/floppy

/mnt/floppy

#

# mount

mount

mount /dev/fd0

/dev/fd0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

/mnt/floppy

#

# tar

tar

tar xzvf

xzvf

xzvf rr2680-fedora-

rr2680-fedora-

rr2680-fedora- x

x

x .tar.gz

.tar.gz

.tar.gz -C

-C

-C /mnt/floppy

/mnt/floppy

#

# umount

umount

umount /mnt/floppy

/mnt/floppy

Note

If the floppy diskette is inserted into an USB floppy controller and the device name

in

the

linux system is sda

sda

sda , then replace fd0

fd0

in

the upper command with sda:

sda:

sda: (e.g.)

#

# mkdosfs

mkdosfs

mkdosfs /dev/sda

/dev/sda

T he driver also could be put on a USB diskette, and the driver disk can be created as the

floppy diskette. For example: use the first partition of the USB diskette sdb

sdb

sdb , then replace

fd0

in

the upper command with sdb1

sdb1

sdb1 :

:

#

# mkdosfs

mkdosfs

mkdosfs /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdb1

Fedora Core 5 does not support install driver from USB diskette. You should extract driver

to a floppy diskette to install Fedora Core 5.

Note

When the command line comes with

"

updates

updates ", eg you type

"

updates

"

before installation,

then the driver disk should be ext2 filesystem or when the installation continues to after

load the

"

Update

Update Disk

Disk

Disk Source

Source

Source ",

it

will complain of failing to load the update medium.

So the driver disk for Fedora Core 5 should be formatted as ext2 filesystem.

#

# mke2fs

mke2fs

mke2fs /dev/fd0

/dev/fd0

Step

Step 4

4

4 Install

Install

Install Fedora

Fedora

Fedora Linux

Linux

I nsert the driver floppy diskette

in

the floppy drive or insert the USB diskette

in

to the

USB port.

1) Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation DVD.

2) On the startup welcome screen.

P ress

"

Tab

", then t ype

in

"

mv

mv sas

sas

sas .noprobe=1

.noprobe=1

.noprobe=1 "(without quotation mark) and press

Enter

Enter to start installation .

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When the installation switches to the graphical installation, press “Ctrl+ALT+F2 ”to

switch the shell on console 2 before select "Next".

Type the following commands to load the RR2 680 driver:

#

# mkdir

mkdir

mkdir /dd

/dd

#

# mount

mount

mount /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1

/dev/sda1 /dd

/dd

#

# cp

cp

cp -r

-r

-r /dd

/dd

/dd /tmp/hptdd

/tmp/hptdd

#

# umount

umount

umount /dd

/dd

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unplug

unplug all

all

all USB

USB

USB storage

storage

storage devices

devices

devices from system before execute following command:

#

# sh

sh

sh /tmp

/tmp

/tmp /

/

/ hpt

hpt

hpt dd/

dd/

dd/ fedora-install-step1.sh

fedora-install-step1.sh

Press “ ALT+F6

ALT+F6

ALT+F6 ” to switch back to installation screen and select “ Next

Next ” to continue

installation .

3) Continue the installation as usual. When

it

comes to partitioning the disk:

Make sure the

"

Review

Review and

and

and modify

modify

modify partitioning

partitioning

partitioning layout

layout

"

is selected . Take care

when the installation continues to the boot loader settings . M ake sure the Boot

Boot

Loader

Loader is installed to the correct position on the RR2 680 .

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4) R efer to Fedora Linux installation guide to continue the installation and when

installation finishes and prompts you to reboot the system:

press “ CRL+ALT+F2

CRL+ALT+F2

CRL+ALT+F2 ” to switch console 2 and type the following commands:

#

# cp

cp

cp -r

-r

-r /tmp/hptdd

/tmp/hptdd

/tmp/hptdd /mnt/sysimage/tmp/hptdd

/mnt/sysimage/tmp/hptdd

#

# chroot

chroot

chroot /mnt/sysimage

/mnt/sysimage

#

# sh

sh

sh /

/

/ tmp/hptdd

tmp/hptdd

tmp/hptdd /

/

/ fedora-install-step2.sh

fedora-install-step2.sh

#

# rm

rm

rm -rf

-rf

-rf /tmp/hptdd

/tmp/hptdd

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#

# exit

exit

Then switch back to console 6 and finish the installation.

3

3 Installing

Installing

Installing RR2680

RR2680

RR2680 driver

driver

driver on

on

on an

an

an Existing

Existing

Existing System

System

Note

If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system, you must make sure the RR2680 controller

BIOS will be loaded after that adapter

’

s BIOS. If not, try to move

it

to another PCI slot.

Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.

Step

Step 1

1

1 Obtain

Obtain

Obtain and

and

and install

install

install the

the

the Driver

Driver

Driver Module

Module

E

xtract the driver archive to a temporary directory and execute the install.sh

install.sh

install.sh to install the

driver to the system . For example

:

#mkdir

mkdir

mkdir /tmp/dd

/tmp/dd

#tar

tar

tar xzvf

xzvf

xzvf rr2680-fedora-

rr2680-fedora-

rr2680-fedora- x

x

x .tar.gz

.tar.gz

.tar.gz -C

-C

-C /tmp/

/tmp/

/tmp/ dd

dd

#cd

cd

cd /tmp/dd

/tmp/dd

#sh

sh

sh install.sh

install.sh

If the driver of previous version has been

in

the initrd image, the installer will update the

initrd image or

it

will make the driver automatically loaded while system up.

Step

Step 2

2

2 Configur

Configur

Configur e

e

e System

System

System to

to

to Mount

Mount

Mount Volumes

Volumes

Volumes when

when

when Startup

Startup

Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file

/etc/fstab.

E

.g. you can add the following line to tell the system to mount /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1

/dev/sda1 to

location /mnt/

/mnt/

/mnt/ raid

raid

raid after startup:

/dev/sda1

/dev/sda1 /mnt/

/mnt/

/mnt/ raid

raid

raid ext

ext

ext 3

3

3 defaults

defaults

defaults 0

0

0 0

0

4

4 Monitoring

Monitoring

Monitoring the

the

the Driver

Driver

Once the driver is runn ing, you can monitor

it

through the Linux proc file system support.

There is a special file under /proc/scsi/ rr2680 / .

Note

The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS. If you have no other SCSI cards

installed,

it

will be 0. In the following sections, we will use x

x

xto represent this number.

Using the following command to show driver status:

#

# cat

cat

cat /proc/scsi/

/proc/scsi/

/proc/scsi/ rr2680

rr2680

rr2680 /x

/x

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This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device

list.

5

5 Updating

Updating

Updating the

the

the Driver

Driver

Update the driver is the same as

i

nstalling driver on an Existing System , so refer to section

3

3 Installing

Installing

Installing RR2680

RR2680

RR2680 driver

driver

driver on

on

on an

an

an Existing

Existing

Existing System

System

System .

6

6 Installing

Installing

Installing RAID

RAID

RAID Management

Management

Management Software

Software

HighPoint RAID Management Software is use d to configure and keep track of your hard

disks and RAID array s attached to RR2680 controller . Installation of the management

software is optional but recommended.

Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more

information .

7

7 Rebuilding

Rebuilding

Rebuilding Driver

Driver

Driver Module

Module

Module for

for

for System

System

System Update

Update

When the system updates the kernel packages, the driver module rr2680.ko should be built

and installed manually before reboot.

To build the driver module, the RR2680 open source package and the following building

packages are needed: gcc , kernel-devel. The open source package can be got from

HighPoint website: http://www.highpoint-tech.com while the building tools can be

installed from the Fedora project website: http://fedoraproject.org

Note

:

the package version of kernel-devel should be the same to the version of updated

kernel package.

Refer to the REAME file distributed with HighPoint RR2680 open source package on how

to build and install the driver module.

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