[SOLVED] Added drives to rpool mirror but not bootable

Valutin

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Hello,
I have a Proxmox server running on 6.2.11. Some of my crucial SSD stated that they were well passed their design Percent_Lifetime_Remain. I purchased 2 new SSDs same model, same brand.
I followed the manuel and did:
Code:
sgdisk /dev/disk/by-id/SSD2 -R /dev/disk/by-id/SSD3
sgdisk -G /dev/disk/by-id/SSD3
zpool attach rpool  /dev/disk/by-id/SSD2-part3 /dev/disk/by-id/SSD3-part3
I repeated with SSD4 So both drives have 3 partitions in total, so my rpool went from SSD1+SSD2 in mirror to a three way mirror SSD2+SSD3+SSD4.
But upon rebooting, my bios does not SSD3 nor SSD4 to be bootable. When SSD1 and SSD2 are taken out of the system, nothing is bootable.
Did I miss something? I did not do replace, because I wanted to add mirror first and detach the old drives later (since they were not "failed", should I have gone with replace? Any pointers? I tried to google/search it but usually, people forget to do the sgdisk part.

Thanks for the help.
 
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Well.. seems I found the issue. I overlooked that because I was looking online and did not have proxmox-boot-tool on my install... Found the documentation for my particular version and now I formattted it and initialized it. I'll wait a few days to go back to the server room and actually try if it's solved. :)