HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide
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for Red Hat Linux 7.2
#
chroot /mnt/sysimage
# mkdir /mnt/floppy
#
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
#
sh /mnt/floppy/postinstall
#
umount /mnt
Then press
Alt-F1
to return to the setup screen and press
ENTER
to finish setup.
3 Installing HPT370/372/372A Driver on an
Existing System
If you are currently running Linux and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the
HPT37x controller, you can perform the following steps.
Note
1. If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system, you must make sure the HPT37x
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.
2. If you are using a multi-processor system, you must boot from a uniprocessor kernel to
install the driver since current driver does not support SMP. For HPT370/372A, you
can just boot from “Linux UP” if it is available. For HPT372, you must first update the
kernel with “vmlinuz.hpt37x2” on the boot diskette.
3. A defect in default Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 kernel will hang your system during boot
phase with HPT372 chip. So, if you want to use HPT372 chip with Red Hat Linux
7.1/7.2 system, you should boot from the provided boot floppy and update the kernel
first.
Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module
You can extract the module file from the file modules.cgz on the driver disk. Using the
following commands:
#
mount /dev/fd0
#
cd /tmp
#
gzip -dc /mnt/floppy/modules.cgz | cpio -idumv
Driver modules for different kernel version will be extracted:
/tmp/2.2.16-22/hpt37x2.o
Red Hat Linux 7.0 driver
/tmp/2.4.2-2/hpt37x2.o
Red Hat Linux 7.1 driver
/tmp/2.4.7-10/hpt37x2.o
Red Hat Linux 7.2 driver
Step 2 Update the Kernel (Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 Only)
If you are about to use Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 system with HPT370 or HPT372
