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SSD7103 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide

HighPoint NVMe RAID Controller

SSD7103 Linux CentOS7.8

Installation Guide

Version 1.00

Last updated on July 28, 2020

SSD7103 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide 
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Table of Contents 
1 Overview.......................................................................................................................................1 
2 Installing Linux CentOS7.8 on SSD7103 controller..................................................................1 
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation .........................................................................1 
Step 2 Check System EFI Settings............................................................................................1 
Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7103........................................................................................3 
Step 4 Create Array...................................................................................................................4 
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette............................................................................................5 
Step 6 Install Linux CentOS7.8 ................................................................................................5 
3 Monitoring the Driver .................................................................................................................8 
4 Installing RAID Management Software.....................................................................................8 
5 Trouble Shooting..........................................................................................................................8 
 
 

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1 Overview

The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install Linux

CentOS7.8 on the SSD7103 controller.

For CentOS7.8 (kernel: 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64)

Mirror link:

https://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/centos/7.8.2003/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2003.iso

MD5: ef8195f42f30a23f039eef9891d496ae

2 Installing Linux CentOS7.8 on SSD7103 controller

If you would like to install Linux CentOS7.8 onto drives attached to SSD7103 controller,

please perform the following operations:

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation

After you attach your NVMe SSD to SSD7103 controller, you can use SSD7103 EFI

Utility to configure your NVMe SSD as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.

Before installation, you must remove all the NVMe SSD, which are not physically

attached to SSD7103 controller, from your system.

Note

SSD7103 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must

make sure the SSD7103 controller EFI 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 EFI Settings

In your system EFI SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system

will first boot from EFI CDROM, and then from SSD7103 RAID. Refer to your

motherboard EFI manual to see how to set boot sequence.

If your EFI settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to boot from

EFI CDROM.After you finish installation, set SSD7103 RAID as the first boot device to

boot up the system.

1. Set UEFI setting with SuperMicro X11DPi-NT motherboard as an example:

a. Set ‘Boot mode select’ to ‘UEFI’;

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b. And ‘Advanced->PCIe/PCI/PnP Configuration CPU Slot PCI-E OPROM’ to

‘EFI’. If the SSD7103 has been connected to the motherboard CPU1Slot2 PCI-E

X16, you should set "CPU1Slot2 PCI-E X16 OPROM" to "EFI";

c. Disable ‘Secure Boot’, set ‘Secure Boot’ to ‘Disabled’;

2. Set UEFI setting withASUS PRIME X299 -DELUXE motherboard as an example

a. Set " Boot->CSM->Boot from Storage Devices" to "UEFI driver first";

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b. And " Boot->CSM->Boot Device Control" to "UEFI Only" or "UEFI and Legacy

OPROM";

c. Set " Boot->Secure Boot->OS Type" to "Other OS".

Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7103

a. Unzip SSD7103 UEFI package to root dir (/) of a USB flash driver, and insert the

USB flash drive to the motherboard;

b. Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment;

c. Command with “SSD7103.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to SSD7103 Controller and

reboot;

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Step 4 Create Array

a. Attach four NVMe SSD to SSD7103 Controller;

Note

Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32.

b. Boot, in the presence of the motherboard Log screen, there will be NVMe SSD

information：

c. Enter the motherboard’s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash:

d. Command ”Arraycreate.efi” to enter the Utility:

e. Command “create RAID0 ”.

Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.

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f. Command “exit”；

g. For more command usages, refer toAppendixA.

Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette

Extract HighPoint_NVMe_CentOS_7u8_x86_64_ vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top(/)

directory of an USB flash drive. It will look like:

Step 6 Install Linux CentOS7.8

a. Insert the USB flash drive to the target system.

b. Booting from Installation DVD disc (EFI mode).

c. When the Installation screen appears:

If you want to choose the default system installation, please select "Install CentOS7" to

install, press ‘e’ to edit boot command line option.

Type “inst.dd modprobe.blacklist=nvme” and then press Ctrl+X to start installation.

Press CTRL+X or F10 to start the system.

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d. When following messages show up, type the line number that line with the LABEL of

USB flash drive.

In this example, type 1and press Enter

e. Choose driver disk ISO file, In this example, type 1and press Enter

f. Select drivers to install

a) [ ]/media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-hptnvme-v1.2.13-20_03_25_el7.8.x86_6

4.rpm

In this example, type 1 and press Enter

b) [x]/media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-hptnvme-v1.2.13-20_03_25_el7.8.x86_6

4.rpm

In this example, type c and press Enter

g. After the driver is installed, type c and press Enter to continue the system installation

h. When the installation switches to the graphical installation, select "continue".

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i. Refer to RHEL/CentOS Linux installation guide to continue the installation and when

installation finishes and prompts you to reboot the system:

j. Open source driver needs to be installed after system installation. Run the .bin file to

install the driver package.

Linux open source driver link:

https://highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/SSD7103/HighPoint_NVMe_G5_Linux_Src_v1

.2.14_2020_04_22.tar.gz

# sh hptnvme_g5_linux_src_vxx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.bin

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k. Follow the prompts to complete the driver installation.

l. After the installation is complete, you can perform system update operations.

3 Monitoring the Driver

Once the driver is running, you can monitor it through the Linux proc file system support.

There is a special file under /proc/scsi/hptnvme /. Through this file you can view driver

status and send control commands to the driver.

Note

The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS. If you have no other SCSI cards

installed, it will be 0. In the following sections, we will use x to represent this number.

Using the following command to show driver status:

# cat /proc/scsi/hptnvme /x

This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device

list.

4 Installing RAID Management Software

HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard

disks and RAID arrays attached to SSD7103 controller.

Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.

5 Trouble Shooting

If you do not install the system or update the kernel according to the installation manual,

the system will crash and you will not be able to enter. Please follow the steps below.

a. Select the default kernel (3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64)and enter the system.

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