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Hi,
I have HP ProLiant G8 servers with bunch of drives in the hot swap bays and NVMe SSDs in PCIe slot. Unfortunately the ProLiant does not support booting from the drive bays (with Smart Array controller in HBA mode), neither it supports booting from the PCIe slots. It can however boot from the internal USB slot. So when I needed HBA mode I usually installed Debian on the NVMe SSDs and a bootloader on a USB stick, which worked fine.
Now I want to install TrueNAS SCALE the same way, but I hit a wall with the installer which basically has zero options. I was able to install TrueNAS onto the NVMe SSDs, but obviously that won't boot. I tried to install GRUB and move the /boot folder after install, but the boot drive is zfs which I never used before, so I just spent the day messing around and getting nowhere.
I tried using an adapter to plug the SSD into the internal USB port, but the speed is so low it takes around 15 minutes just to boot, so that's not an option.
Does anybody know about some guide/blogpost that covers this bootloader install issue? I wasn't able to find any...
Thanks.
I have HP ProLiant G8 servers with bunch of drives in the hot swap bays and NVMe SSDs in PCIe slot. Unfortunately the ProLiant does not support booting from the drive bays (with Smart Array controller in HBA mode), neither it supports booting from the PCIe slots. It can however boot from the internal USB slot. So when I needed HBA mode I usually installed Debian on the NVMe SSDs and a bootloader on a USB stick, which worked fine.
Now I want to install TrueNAS SCALE the same way, but I hit a wall with the installer which basically has zero options. I was able to install TrueNAS onto the NVMe SSDs, but obviously that won't boot. I tried to install GRUB and move the /boot folder after install, but the boot drive is zfs which I never used before, so I just spent the day messing around and getting nowhere.
I tried using an adapter to plug the SSD into the internal USB port, but the speed is so low it takes around 15 minutes just to boot, so that's not an option.
Does anybody know about some guide/blogpost that covers this bootloader install issue? I wasn't able to find any...
Thanks.