HighPoint SSD7502 - 6.Install the Rocky Linux OS in a RAID array

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6. Install the Rocky Linux OS in a RAID array
Please disconnect from the network and follow these steps to install the Rocky Linux operating system
in a RAID array.
1. Insert a bootable USB flash drive into the target system.
2. Boot the system using a bootable USB flash drive.
3. Block the system kernel module so that NVMe SSD is not occupied by the system driver.
Example: Rocky Linux 9.4
a. When the Installation screen appears, press e key to edit boot command line option.
b. On the edit command window, move the cursor to the end of the line “linux
efi/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz...”, and append “modprobe.blacklist=nvme,mpt3sas”.
c. Press CTRL+X or F10 to start the system.
4. Install the binary driver in a RAID array.
a. When the following window appears during installation. Press CTRL+ALT+F2 to switch to
the shell on console 2.
Note: The shortcut to switch to the shell may be different for different Rocky Linux versions.
b. Execute the following command to create a mount point for the USB flash drive.
#mkdir /hptdd
c. Execute the following command to mount the USB flash drive to /hptdd.
#mount /dev/sda1 /hptdd/