[SOLVED] Any way to recover my Node?

[DerekG]

HI all,

I have a node which is a member of a cluster, where I've done the stupidest thing and now the nodes is unable to boot.

I passthrough the full onboard SATA interface, the one where my pve boot drive is plugged into, now the node fails to boot, even with the Proxmox installation media.

Is there any way to gain access to the drive so I can remove the offending entry from the vm.conf file??

To be honest, there is nothing major on the node which can't be rebuilt apart from a TrueNAS Scale server which, with the drives installed was too big for my pbs, luckily that server is still in the testing phase with no important data.

I just don't want to spend the weekend rebuilding the node when I know I could edit the line out of the vm.conf - if I could gain access it.

Thanks

DerekG

 

[mvs]

Is there any way to gain access to the drive so I can remove the offending entry from the vm.conf file??

vm configs are stored in /etc/pve/nodes/<node_name>/qemu-server/ folder. It is located on a cluster filesystem (/etc/pve/), so you can edit it from any node if your cluster has quorum. Then just restart your problem node. It will get updated version of vm config before launching all vms on startup.

 

[DerekG]

Brilliant !!

That solved the problem, edited the vm.conf from another node and now the offending node is able to boot and join the cluster.

I was not aware that the cluster vm.conf was stored in that location - so I've definitely learned something new here.

Thank you so much mvs, you've saved my weekend here

DerekG