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RevoDrive 350 User Guide

Installation as a boot device in Linux

The supported Mint and Ubuntu distributions do not provide a standard method to use the RevoDrive

350 as a system boot drive.

To use the RevoDrive 350 as a boot device in Fedora:

1 Install the hardware; see page 3.

2 Install the driver and set the RevoDrive 350 as a boot device.

Install the driver and set the RevoDrive 350 as a boot device

To use the RevoDrive 350 as the system boot device, you must install the Linux device driver as part

of the Linux distribution installation process. Mint and Ubuntu distributions do not provide a driver

installation process, so you cannot use them as a system boot device.

To use Fedora distributions as a boot device, we provide dd files for each distribution.

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To install Fedora 22 and later, you must have an active internet connection during the

installation.

1 Go to http://ocz.com/consumer/download/drivers and copy the dd image for your Fedora

distribution to a USB flash drive (use the whole USB flash drive, not a partition), using the

following command:

dd if=oczpcie_fedora.xxx.dd of=path_to_USB_drive

2 Boot from the Fedora setup DVD; when the boot menu appears, press Esc. A boot: prompt is

shown.

3 Plug the USB flash drive in. At the boot: prompt enter:

linux rdblacklist=mvsas modprobe.blacklist=mvsas ks=hd:USB_device_name:/oczpcie.ks

4 The system starts to boot. Note that the system may stop for several minutes on the Running

pre-installation scripts stage; this is normal.

5 When the INSTALLATION DESTINATION option is shown, ensure that the RevoDrive 350 drive

is selected (NOT the USB flash drive). Note that the Fedora installer may not correctly determine

the RevoDrive 350 drive model name and may show it as Unknown. Continue the installation as

usual.

6 When rebooting at the end of the installation, select the RevoDrive 350 drive as the boot drive.

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If you re-install grub2 at any time, you must add part_msdos and part_gpt to the pre-loaded

modules, for example:

grub2-install --modules="part_msdos part_gpt" /dev/RevoDrive.

If you do not do this, you may end up with an unbootable system and have to use a recovery

disk.

Installation as a storage device in Linux

To use the RevoDrive 350 as a storage device in Linux:

1 Install the hardware; see page 3.

2 Install the driver in Linux; see page 5.

3 Format the RevoDrive 350 as storage using the standard method for your Linux distribution.

OCZ RevoDrive 350 User Manual

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