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Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 or RHEL5 Update 1 on, RAID with onboard SATA ESB2

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Installation Guidelines Intel® Server Boards S5000PSL/S5000XSL, Intel® Workstation Board S5000XVN, and Intel® Server System SC5400RA TPM Not supported under Sun Solaris. Intel® RAID Adapter SROMBSAS18E Driver is available from: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s5000psl/index.htm Intel® Hot Swap Hard No driver required under Sun Solaris. Drive back plane 6.4 Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (or RHEL5 Update 1) on RAID with onboard SATA (ESB2) Controller Issue: Customer may find that Red Hat* 5.1 cannot be installed on S5000PSL under ESRTII SATA RAID1. Implication: There will be updated release notes for the installation of the ESRTII RAID driver. Guideline: Customer can perform the following steps to successfully install RHEL5 with an onboard SATA Controller: 1. Create a RAID array using the Intel(R) Embedded Server RAID Technology II RAID BIOS Console. 2. Connect a USB floppy drive and insert a floppy disk with RAID driver. 3. Boot your system using RHEL5.0 DVD. 4. At the boot prompt, type linux dd noprobe=ata1 noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3 noprobe=ata4. A page showing "loading usb-storage driver" displays and then asks, "Do you have a driver disk?". 5. Choose "Yes". It asks you to choose a driver disk. 6. Choose "sda" for the USB floppy disk and click OK to continue. The message "Reading driver disk" displays. After it finishes, it asks, "Do you wish to load any more driver disks?". 7. If you do not have any more driver disks to load, choose "No". 8. (If XEN mode feature is needed, the Operating System installation KEY is required and then the XEN software package needs to be loaded). Continue with the RHEL automatic installation. In the page where you select the drives to be used for installation, you will only see one disk (Intel MegaSR). This means that the raid is recognized. At the last step of the installation (after all the packages are installed), RHEL5 prompts you to reboot. Do NOT click the Reboot button. 9. Press Ctr+Alt+F2 to go to the text console prompt. 10. Type "cat /proc/partitions". Some information about the partition displays including several rows, with one row for sdb. It displays as follows: major minor #blocks name 8 16 1440 sdb 11. Type "mknod /dev/sdb b 8 16" (8 and 16 are copied from the major and minor numbers in step 10). 12. Type "mkdir /temp". 62 Revision 2.9

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Installation Guidelines
Intel® Server Boards S5000PSL/S5000XSL, Intel® Workstation Board
S5000XVN, and Intel® Server System SC5400RA
Revision 2.9
62
TPM
Not supported under Sun Solaris.
Intel
®
RAID Adapter
SROMBSAS18E
Driver is available from:
Intel
®
Hot Swap Hard
Drive back plane
No driver required under Sun Solaris.
6.4
Installing Red Hat* Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 (or RHEL5 Update 1) on
RAID with onboard SATA (ESB2) Controller
Issue:
Customer may find that Red Hat* 5.1 cannot be installed on S5000PSL under
ESRTII SATA RAID1.
Implication:
There will be updated release notes for the installation of the ESRTII RAID
driver.
Guideline:
Customer can perform the following steps to successfully install RHEL5 with an
onboard SATA Controller:
1.
Create a RAID array using the Intel(R) Embedded Server RAID Technology II RAID
BIOS Console.
2.
Connect a USB floppy drive and insert a floppy disk with RAID driver.
3.
Boot your system using RHEL5.0 DVD.
4.
At the boot prompt, type
linux dd noprobe=ata1 noprobe=ata2 noprobe=ata3 noprobe=ata4
.
A page showing "loading usb-storage driver" displays and then asks, “Do you have
a driver disk?”.
5.
Choose “Yes”.
It asks you to choose a driver disk.
6.
Choose “sda” for the USB floppy disk and click OK to continue.
The message “Reading driver disk” displays. After it finishes, it asks, “Do you wish
to load any more driver disks?”.
7.
If you do not have any more driver disks to load, choose “No”.
8.
(If XEN mode feature is needed, the Operating System installation KEY is required
and then the XEN software package needs to be loaded). Continue with the RHEL
automatic installation.
In the page where you select the drives to be used for installation, you will only see
one disk (Intel MegaSR). This means that the raid is recognized.
At the last step of the installation (after all the packages are installed), RHEL5
prompts you to reboot. Do NOT click the Reboot button.
9.
Press Ctr+Alt+F2 to go to the text console prompt.
10. Type “
cat /proc/partitions
”.
Some information about the partition displays including several rows, with one row
for sdb. It displays as follows:
major
minor
#blocks
name
8
16
1440
sdb
11. Type “
mknod /dev/sdb b 8 16
”
(8 and 16 are copied from the major and minor
numbers in step 10).
12. Type “
mkdir /temp
”.