From: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
To: Wolf Noble <wolf@wolfspyre.com>
Cc: Proxmox VE user list <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Installing proxmox such that it boots from internal sdcard (dell r720)? .. root on sas drives
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:36:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220216093634.56554ae9@rosa.proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31F64522-29EC-45FA-8A4B-4ED7DA1C2998@wolfspyre.com>
Hello,
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:23:45 -0600
Wolf Noble <wolf@wolfspyre.com> wrote:
> Howdy all!
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> is there a way to install proxmox such that the boot filesystem and bootloader is installed on the dual mirrored sd cards that are available on the dell 12g servers?
Has been a while since I dealt with those machines - and cannot verify
this here - but if you cannot boot from the disks in the internal bays you
could try the following:
* start the PVE installer in debug mode
* let the installer run (exit the first 2 debug shells, and install
regularly)
* after the installation is done you get another debug shell
* there re-import the zfs rpool, bind mount what's necessary and chroot
into the new system - see [0] for steps.
* inside format and init the sd-cards (if you want you can also create
partitions on them - assuming the sd-card presents itself to the OS as
/dev/sdX run:
** proxmox-boot-tool format /dev/sdX
** proxmox-boot-tool init /dev/sdX
* exit the chroot, umount, export rpool
* try booting from the sd-card
but this is just from memory - have not tried this and am not sure if it
will work smoothly.
Good luck,
stoiko
[0]
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS:_Switch_Legacy-Boot_to_Proxmox_Boot_Tool#Repairing_a_System_Stuck_in_the_GRUB_Rescue_Shell
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> I don't want to have the entirety of the root filesystem on them (waaaaaaay too slow) but having /boot and the initial bootloader on an isolated media would make it much easier to have a zfs root.... as well as having the root fs on fast media that might not be a supportable boot option.
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> I'n not seeing an obvious way to configure this, but that doesn't mean it's not there hiding (probably in plain sight and I'm blind)
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> Wolf Noble
> Hoof & Paw
> wolf@wolfspyre.com
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