HighPoint RocketRAID 3G mini-SAS HBA Series Installation Manual Download Page 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part

 

1

 

 

What

 

is

 

a

 

Boot

 

Single?

 

A Boot Single is moving the onboard Mac OS X boot drive to the RocketRAID 3G 
mini‐SAS series controller

 

or cloning the Mac OS X boot drive to another single hard 

disk drive.  

 

Part

 

2

 ­ 

Pre

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Requisite

 

for

 

Boot

 

Single

 

Configuration

 

Overview

 – The RocketRAID mini‐SAS 3G b/s series controller support booting to 

Mac OS X 10.5.x and above. Boot Single configuration include moving the boot drive 
to the RocketRAID 3G mini‐SAS series controller or cloning the boot drive to single 
hard drive. This document will include the installations steps to configure and setup 
your hardware to support Boot Single to Mac OS X.  

The hardware and software pre‐requests are listed below:  

 

RocketRAID mini‐SAS 3G b/s series HBA 

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 3G mini-SAS HBA Series

Page 1: ...AID 3G mini SAS storage to support booting to Mac OS X This guide also provides trouble shooting tips when problems occur Part 1 What is a Boot Single Configuration Part 2 Pre requisite for Boot Singl...

Page 2: ...The RocketRAID mini SAS 3G b s series controller support booting to Mac OS X 10 5 x and above Boot Single configuration include moving the boot drive to the RocketRAID 3G mini SAS series controller or...

Page 3: ...64 bit 2 3 4 2009 Quad Core 2 66 2 93 3 33 64 bit 2 3 4 2009 Eight Core 2 26 2 66 2 93 64 bit 2 3 4 2010 Quad Core 2 9 3 2 64 bit 2 3 4 2010 Six Core 3 3 64 bit 2 3 4 2010 Eight Core 2 4 64 bit 2 3 4...

Page 4: ...ling the RocketRAID 3G mini SAS series controller restart your computer After your computer has started insert the Driver Software Installation Disc to install the necessary drivers for your computer...

Page 5: ...AID 3G mini SAS series controller then follow the steps from Hardware Verification Step 2 If Step 1 fails then insert the RocketRAID 3G mini SAS series controller into a different PCIe slot Step 3 If...

Page 6: ...ooted into your Mac follow these instructions to install the drivers and the RocketRAID 3G mini SAS series controller software 1 Insert the RocketRAID 3G mini SAS Card Install Disc into your Mac and n...

Page 7: ...so once Driver Installed is verified as Yes the WebGUI is also be installed too You can just start the browser to log in WebGUI While for Mac 10 6 x it needs to separately install the WebGUI Troublesh...

Page 8: ...is installed you can now proceed to log into the web GUI to create a RAID array Note Remember to flash EFI BIOS before cloning Part 5 Ready to Experience Log into web GUI Log into the web GUI by ente...

Page 9: ...t the single hard disk drive attached to the RocketRAID 3G mini SAS series controller as the boot device Note There are two methods to select the boot device First During boot up hold down the alt opt...

Page 10: ...Restart the system to boot from the RocketRAID 3G mini SAS series controller...

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