Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide
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1 Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use
RocketRAID 2680 Controller on a FreeBSD system.
2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 2680 Controller
If you would like to install FreeBSD onto drives attached to RocketRAID 2680 controller,
please perform the following operations:
Step 1 Prepare 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.
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 2 Check System BIOS Settings
In your system BIOS SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system
will first boot from CDROM, next from and then from floppy drive, and then from SCSI.
Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence.
If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to boot from
CDROM. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot device to boot up the
system.
Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette
If you are installing FreeBSD, you must prepare a driver disk for RR2680 before
installation.
First obtain the driver diskette tgz file, freebsd.tgz.
On a DOS or Windows system, create a MS-DOS filesystem and extract the archive file to
the (USB) floppy diskette or USB hard disk.
On a FreeBSD system,
#newfs_msdos /dev/fd0
#mount –t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt
#tar xxx.tgz –C /mnt
