Comment on Help Request - Proxmox Partitions/Boot - CloverBootLoader
30021190@lemmy.cloud.aboutcher.co.uk 1 year agoDL380 G9. Those bioses don’t support booting from PCIe at all.
They actually do but it can only be a HPE supported BootROM… anything non-HPE is ignored (weirdly, some Intel and Broadcom cards PXE boot without the HPE firmware but not all).
Most of these boards have internal USB and internal SD slots which you can boot from with any media, intact HPE sell a USB SD card raid adaptor for the usb slot. So I would recommend using SD card for this…
From what I’ve read online, Dell does something similar. There’s some sort of card/add-on that can enable directly seeing and booting from PCIe but they are costly.
This server has the internal USB and a build in SD slot accessible from the rear. (There’s also a dual card option like you mention for redundancy.)
My plan was to get Clover working with USB, then use the vFlash SD slot to hold the Clover bootloader in read-only mode. This would hopefully prevent the SD card from dying quickly.
Why not just clone the boot partition after an install and then change the mount points in the fstab?
Or even just install grub or pxelinux onto the SD that then just directs you somewhere else.
Clover always felt very unstable and messy.
scrapeus@feddit.de 1 year ago
I wouldn’t suggest usb or sd-cards with proxmox due to its constant logging. You will fry them really quick unfortunately. Had that problem with NVMes.
For litterly anything else I would also suggest SD-Cards.
Ac5000@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The original plan is to use an SD card with Clover in read-only mode to bootload Proxmox running on the NVMe drives. (Read-only to prevent frying the SD card) This server has a built in SD Card slot Dell calls “vFlash” that you can actually remotely partition and configure. That’s where I was going to put the final configuration of Clover.
How fast/often is Proxmox writing logging? It’s concerning that you say you had this fry some NVMes since that’s what I’m trying to do here. Is this a setting that you can adjust?
scrapeus@feddit.de 1 year ago
The problem is more with zfs on consumer grade NVMes. I have/had problems in that configuration due to the bigger sector sizes. Proxmox itself does do frequent writes, but I don’t know how often exactly. I know that my problems went away with not using zfs.
reddit.com/…/zfs_extremely_high_ssd_wearout_seemi…
Ac5000@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thank you for the details and link.
I looked around a little and seems like there are settings to help avoid this problem. Letting me know about this problem makes sure I catch it early. Unlike some of the people I’ve found that didn’t see the problem until it was already pretty bad…
I’ll keep this in mind if I can ever get this to work.