Cisco UCS C480 M5 Service Manual

Step 4 Launch a Virtual KVM console window and click the Virtual Media tab.
a) Click Add Image and browse to select your remote RHEL installation ISO file.
b) Click Add Image again and browse to select your dud.img (or .iso) file.
c) Check the check boxes in the Mapped column for the media that you just added, then wait for mapping to complete.
Step 5 Power-cycle the target server.
Step 6 Press F6 when you see the F6 prompt during bootup. The Boot Menu window opens.
Step 7 On the Boot Manager window, select the physical disk or virtual disk and press Enter.
The RHEL installation begins when the image is booted.
Step 8 Enter one of the following commands at the boot prompt:
• For RHEL 6.x (32- and 64-bit), enter:
linux dd blacklist=isci blacklist=ahci nodmraid noprobe=<atadrive number>
• For RHEL 7.x (32- and 64-bit), enter:
linux dd modprobe.blacklist=ahci nodmraid
The noprobe values depend on the number of drives. For example, to install RHEL 6.5 on a RAID 5
configuration with three drives, enter:
Linux dd blacklist=isci blacklist=ahci nodmraid noprobe=ata1 noprobe=ata2
Note
Step 9 Press Enter.
The prompt asks whether you have a driver disk.
Step 10 Use the arrow key to choose Yes, and then press Enter.
Step 11 Choose fd0 to indicate that you have a disk with the driver on it.
Step 12 Do one of the following actions:
• f you prepared the dud.img file on a physical thumb drive, insert the thumb drive to the target server and then
press Enter.
• If you mapped the dud.img (or .iso) file as a virtual disk, choose the location of the virtual disk.
The installer locates and loads the driver for your device. The following message appears:
Loading megasr driver...
Step 13 Follow the RHEL installation procedure to complete the installation.
Step 14 Reboot the target server.
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Driver
For the specific supported OS versions, see the Hardware and Software Compatibility Matrix for your server
release.
This topic describes the fresh installation of the SLES driver on systems that have the embedded MegaRAID
stack.
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Storage Controller Considerations
Installing the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Driver

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	UCS C480 M5
Category	Server
Language	English