Background: I'm a Linux newbie with very limited knowledge, I wanted to build a RAID 10 for our startup after experiencing a complete loss of several terabytes of data from Dropbox recently.
Setup: I spun up an Ubuntu 16.04 (Desktop) machine and installed an LSI-2008-8E RAID controller, I connected this to our JBOD via two mini-SAS cables. Intel i7, 16gb RAM, Samsung SSD. Barebones. RAID Controller is on PCI slot 1.
Issue: Upon installing the card and booting up the entire system, the drives were able to be identified, everything was fine. I went to install the drivers that came with the RAID card, but seeing as how I have very limited knowledge of Linux I turned to online tutorials that led me to MegaRAID Software Manager, an application with a GUI. I opted for this over MDADM (not sure why now).
These tutorials also led me to install several other items which I can't remember now, this resulted in installing something called MPT SAS2 BIOS
I don't remember installing this, nor do I know what it does. I'm assuming this is something that was accidentally installed in the boot folder to assign the boot priority to the RAID card itself.
When I went to reboot I get this error: enter image description here
