Your server is equipped with an Oracle Storage 12 Gb/s SAS PCIe RAID HBA, internal. This HBA requires a RAID volume to install and boot an operating system (OS).
To prepare a drive for operating system installation:
Preinstalled Operating System: On systems with a preinstalled OS, the drives are configured at the factory. Proceed to one of the following sections:
New Operating System: To install an OS, you must ensure that the drive where you will install the OS is visible to the system. This requires that a RAID volume be created on the drive.
If you do not wish to use a RAID array, configure a drive as a RAID 0 volume.
To check the RAID configuration and to configure the drive:
To use Oracle System Assistant, see Configuring RAID Using Oracle System Assistant
To use the BIOS configuration utility, see Configuring RAID Using the BIOS RAID Configuration Utilities
The following table lists the requirements for each supported RAID level:
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Once you have created a bootable RAID volume, install the OS. For details, refer to the corresponding operating system installation guide in http://www.oracle.com/goto/X5-8/docs-videos.