SSD7000 NVMe RAID AIC BootRAID Installation Guide
HighPoint Technologies, Inc
2. Prerequisites
To configure a bootable NVMe RAID array, please perform the following operations.
2.1. Prepare Your Hardware for Installation
1. The NVMe RAID AIC needs to connect the disks for a bootable NVMe RAID array.
Note: The RocketAIC series NVMe drives already include pre-configured SSDs.
2. The NVMe RAID AIC must be installed into a PCIe slot.
3. Remove all the NVMe SSDs not physically attached to the NVMe RAID AIC from your system.
4. Disconnect the system from the internet and any local network.
Note: If connected to the Internet, the system will automatically update the latest kernel after the
installation is complete without saving the initial version of the kernel, which will result in the
system not booting correctly after the installation is complete.
2.2. Prepare Two USB Flash Drives
1. Prepare two USB flash drives formatted as FAT32.
2. The first USB flash drive is used as a bootable USB flash drive. You can use third-party software
to flash the operating system to a USB flash drive.
3. The second USB flash drive is used to save the files the operating system needs, such as the UEFI
package, Linux open source driver, binary driver, and Windows driver.
You must extract HighPoint_NVMe_Linuxxx.xx_x86_64_vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to a USB flash
drive’s top(/) directory. It will look like:
The UEFI package must be unzipped directly to the root directory of this flash drive. (Do not
extract the contents in a new folder.) It will look like:
Example screenshot
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