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Installation Guide Using a P420m or P320h PCIe SSD as a Boot Drive Intr oduction This document pro vides instructions for deplo ying a Micr on ® P420m or P320h PCI Expr ess ® (PCI e) solid state drive (SSD) as a boot drive for the following Windo ws and Linux operating systems: • Windo ws S erver 2012/2012 R2 and W indo ws 8/8.1 • Windo ws S [...]
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Or dering a Bootable Drive Only P420m and P320h drives with the bootable option feature (bootable drives) can be used as boot devices. When ordering an SSD , consider whether or not the system will need to boot from it at any point. A bootable SSD can function as a simple storage de- vice, but the bootable option cannot be added to a non-bootable S[...]
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Windo ws attempts to find the driver located on the USB dr ive . 10. Select the Micr on Device driver when prompted for a driver , and then click Next. 11. Remo ve the USB drive from the system. The Wher e do you want to install Windo ws dialog appears again. The dr ive should appear as a new drive number . Note: The drive may be labeled with "[...]
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8. Select C ustom (advanced) when pr ompted for type of installation. 9. When the installation directory prompt appears, select Load D river and locate the driver files for the P420m or P320h located on the USB drive. Note: The installer may specify the USB drive directory with a different drive letter than what was originally assigned on the host [...]
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SUSE 11.x x64 Befor e you begin, locate the appropriate ISO file you will need for the version of SUSE installed in the system. ( This file is contained with the support pack software in the Li- nux Driver subdir ectory .) • F or SLES11 SP2: mtip32xx-kmp-default-2.4.2_3.0.13_0.27-1.x86_64.iso • F or SLES11 SP1: mtip32xx-kmp-default-2.4.2-2.6.32[...]
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RHEL 6.x x64 1. Cop y the P420m/P320h dr iver disk image from the support pack softwar e to exter- nal remo vable media such as a USB drive. F or example, for a USB drive (/dev/sdb): a. Cr eate a single partition ( /dev/sdb1 ). b . Use mke2fs to cr eate an ext2 file system or use the Disk U tility tool to format the USB drive to create an ext2 file[...]
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• Pr ess Ctrl+Alt+F6 to return to the GUI. Finish the installation b y clicking Reboot. Note: Steps 7 and 8 belo w apply only if your system is booting from a uEFI shell and your drive has been configured with a uEFI boot setting. I f your drive has been configured for a legacy boot setting, skip these steps . (Except for specific OEMs, most cust[...]
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Note: It is r ecommended to allocate at least 100GB for the swap size. The /dev/rssda1 partition should be created and appear in the P artition Lay- out screen. f. Click N ext. g. Select W rite Changes to Disk when prompted. The partitions are cr eated. h. After the partitions are written, verify the boot load image is pointing to /dev/ rssda to ma[...]
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Ubuntu 12.04–12.04.3 L TS N etwork connectivity and a USB drive ar e requir ed for this procedure . Be aware that any data on the USB drive is erased during this process. 1. Make sur e the legacy option rom is enabled on the P420m/P320h dr ive . If it is ena- bled, the drive will be presented as a boot target in the legacy BIOS menu. 2. If you ar[...]
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13. Cr eate the / (root) partition on the /dev/rssdX device node , as well as any other mount points such as <swap> , /home , or /opt . If desir ed, create a separ ate /boot partition on the drive (other wise it will be created as part of the / (root) partition). 14. At the end of the installation, an error message "I nstallation step fa[...]
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27. Complete the installation and r eboot the system. Make sure you do not update the grub package using Ubuntu updates. Citrix XenServer 6.1 T o use the P420m/P320h as a boot device in XenServer version 6.1, only one drive can be used to store the oper ating system during the installation. The installation process may not work corr ectly if there [...]
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Revision History Rev . A, 3/14 • Initial r elease 8000 S. Federal Way , P .O. Box 6, Boise, ID 83707-0006, T el: 208-368-3900 www .micron.com/productsupport Customer Comment Line: 800-932-4992 Micron and the Micron logo are trademarks of Micron T echnology , Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. P420m/P320h PCIe S[...]