I love this community. Thank you Stoiko!
i’ll play with this and write up my experience and post back. ❤️🐺W [= The contents of this message have been written, read, processed, erased, sorted, sniffed, compressed, rewritten, misspelled, overcompensated, lost, found, and most importantly delivered entirely with recycled electrons =] > On Feb 16, 2022, at 02:36, Stoiko Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > >> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:23:45 -0600 >> Wolf Noble <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Howdy all! >> >> 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 > >> >> 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. >> >> >> 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) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Wolf Noble >> Hoof & Paw >> [email protected] >> >> [= The contents of this message have been written, read, processed, erased, >> sorted, sniffed, compressed, rewritten, misspelled, overcompensated, lost, >> found, and most importantly delivered entirely with recycled electrons =] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pve-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user >> >> > > _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
