I don’t think the bifurcation is causing me issues. Before I enabled it, I wasn’t able to see the drives from iDRAC/Bios. From what I’ve been able to research, this is expected and Dell sells the “solution” to booting directly from them. (Add-in card that’s pretty pricey…)

I do have an old SATA SSD that I’m considering slotting into one of the bays and using to boot. But I see that as a “last resort” option. I was hoping to have a bit of redundancy with the Proxmox install/configuration itself.

I feel that there’s a solution to the current setup and I just lack the knowledge to fix it. Everything I’ve been able to find points to my current setup being able to work. I’m just being hindered by not understanding partition/device/boot structure.

From what I understand, and what I saw during the Proxmox installation, if I can get past whatever part of the POST/boot process is preventing seeing the drives directly, I can use Clover to bootload from there. I’ve been able to boot into Clover just fine, and it was able to “see” the drives and partitions. I just don’t know which one should hold the Proxmox boot and if I’ve configured the Clover config correct.