Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T Installation (SAS Daughter
Board)
Below information describes how to manually install Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.0 EM64T on Altos R5250 with SAS daughter board.
Drivers Required
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T Installation, the following device
drivers are required.
Device
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
SAS Daughter
Board
4.00.13.04-1 \Disk\r5250\sas\sas1068\x64\rhel5\
Onboard NVIDIA
NFP3600 Chipset
N/A OS
built-in
Onboard NVIDIA
nForce Networking
Controller
0.62 \Disk\R5250\nic\Nvidia\x64\rhel5\
Onboard XGI Z9s
1.12.03
\Disk\R5250\onboard\xgiz9s\x64\rhel5\
ATI FireGL V5200
8.35.5
\Disk\R5250\graphic\V5200\x64\rhel5\
Software Required
The management utility for SAS daughter board can be found in the EasyBUILD
8.0 build 100 (or later).
Software
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
MegaRAID Storage
Manager
2.30 \app\R5250\sas\lsi1068\Linux\
Configuring SAS Daughter Board
Please refer to the Appendix B. for the SAS Daughter Board Configuration.
Installation Tips
1.
Since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 EM64T cannot recognize the SAS
daughter board, you need to make a driver diskette from the EasyBUILD
8.0 build 100 (or later) first before the installation.
2.
Type linux dd when the prompt boot: appears at the start.
3.
Please select the sda as the Driver Disk Source.
4.
Follow the instruction to load the driver for SAS daughter board from the
driver diskette.
5.
When installing MSM (MegaRAID Storage Manager) for SAS daughter
board after installation complted OR if you have installed the ATI FireGL
V5200 in the system, you are required to manually to select/install
additional package at the Package Installation Defaults.
6.
At the Package Installation Defaults, select Customize software packages
