NovaScale R460 E2
PrKB11900 : R460 E1 - Raid Onboard driver installation with Red Hat 5u2 (i386/X86_64 Initial Release)
On the R460 E1 you have the possibility to make a Raid 0 and 1 with the SATA controler on board. The Raid use the LSI stack in the BIOS.
Making Driver Media :
Burn the ISO file with your favorite burning software. The ISO file contains all achitectures for RedHat 5U2
megasr-11.02.0626.2008-1-rhel50-u2-all.iso
Installation
1) Boot on your RedHat media (cd-rom, dvd)
2) At the prompt type :
linux dd noprobe=ata1 noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3 noprobe=ata4
3) A message box is displayed :
« Do you have a driver disk ? »
4) Choose :
« Yes ».
5) A new message box is displayed :
« Insert your driver disk into ...... ».
6) Choose :
« Yes » and Press « Enter »
7) After few minutes, on the box, megasr driver is displayed.
8) After the driver loaded, a new message appears :
« Do you wish to load any more driver disk ? »
9) If you need to load another driver repeat step 6 to 9 or clic on « No » to continue on step 10.
10) Continue the normal installation of your RedHat Version.
11) At the end of the installation please do not clic on « Restart »
12) It's necessary we open a text console, press :
[CTRL] [ALT] [F2]
13) By default the optical device is hda, we need to create the mounting point, type :
mkdir /cdrom
14)Now, we mount the optical device (CDROM), type :
mount /dev/hda /cdrom
15)We finalize the installation with the right parameters, type :
cd /cdrom
./replace_ahci.sh
16)After fews seconds the system comes back with the prompt
17)We return into the graphical interface, please press :
[CTRL] [ALT] [F6]
18) Clic in the « Restart » Box
19) The system reboot
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