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I had the same issue on an IBM m4 (with out bifurcation), I have tried with Clover and had limited success. What I’m doing at the moment is I have proxmox installed to a single nvme and the same iso installed to a thumb drive.

I then, on first boot, remapped the boot pool to point to the nvme drive. Down side is I have to update the kernel on both the thumdrive and nvme drive if I need to update the kernel version

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Ac5000@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What were the issues you had with Clover in particular? I’d be interested to hear since I’m trying to head down that path myself.

For your “remap” can you explain what you did/have an example? I think this might give me the knowledge I’m lacking since I think part of my problem is not understanding which partition/PARTUUID is the Proxmox boot/what I should point Clover at.

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- BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I cant remember what the issue was sorry
  
  If you go down the route of booting off a usb key to chain load proxmox there will be no real ware to the usb as it’s only used for booting.
  
  On thye first boot it proxmox will complain that there are two zvol with the same name, and you just rename the one on the USB to ***_USB or the like and then continue the boot - I think I did a post on reddit or proxmox forum on how to do this
  
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  - Ac5000@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thank you for responding and providing the link and info. The top comment in that reddit post has the same link I posted above.
    
    For the
    
    zpool import // find the ID of the NVME pool
    
    How did you find the ID of the NVME pool? I think is part of the problem I have where I see multiple partitions and not entirely sure which is the “boot” partition I should be pointing to. I think in your case, you’re pointing to the “data” partition, but this might help me eliminate one of my options.
    
    I’m also not sure how the raid1 plays into things since it seems like both physical drives seem to have the same partitions. Not sure if I can just point to one of the “boot” partitions on one of the drives and it’ll find it’s partner when it starts booting?
    
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    BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    the command zpool import will list all the pools and IDs
    
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