Booting issue Dell R730XD-Clover-PVE8

[dasca.thea]

Hi everyone, I currently run into a strange General Exception error when I try to boot into PVE.

Currently I am running PV8 on Dell R730XD:
-CPU: 2683*2
-256GB RAM
-HBA330 (16HDD for Truenas VM)
-Boot drive: Clover on a USB flash
-PVE lives on Samsung NVME 980 Pro 1TB

I have configured PVE for PCI passthrough. a Total of 6 NVME drives and an Nvidia 1080 Ti.

The problem is, everytime I reboot the server I run into an error right after Clover boot selector. The weird thing is, I dont know why this works( I found this fix randomly), if I go to into Bios Device setting and switch between HBA330 bios mode from Legacy to UEFI and reboot, it will all work again. This is weird because, say now HBA is in legacy mode, and PVE boots, next time I reboot, I will have to switch this back to UEFI.

I think this is very abnormal and would my set up to work more seamlessly rather having to do this switch everytime I reboot.

 

[bbgeek17]

I dont have direct experience with this specific server or error.
However, this seems to be a bios/firmware issue rather than OS. I'd recommend making sure you are running the latest and greatest vendor software.

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[dasca.thea]

I dont have direct experience with this specific server or error.
However, this seems to be a bios/firmware issue rather than OS. I'd recommend making sure you are running the latest and greatest vendor software.

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

Thank you. However, I am already on the latest firmware/bios.

 

[SnowReborn]

Hi everyone, I currently run into a strange General Exception error when I try to boot into PVE.

Currently I am running PV8 on Dell R730XD:
-CPU: 2683*2
-256GB RAM
-HBA330 (16HDD for Truenas VM)
-Boot drive: Clover on a USB flash
-PVE lives on Samsung NVME 980 Pro 1TB

I have configured PVE for PCI passthrough. a Total of 6 NVME drives and an Nvidia 1080 Ti.

The problem is, everytime I reboot the server I run into an error right after Clover boot selector. The weird thing is, I dont know why this works( I found this fix randomly), if I go to into Bios Device setting and switch between HBA330 bios mode from Legacy to UEFI and reboot, it will all work again. This is weird because, say now HBA is in legacy mode, and PVE boots, next time I reboot, I will have to switch this back to UEFI.

I think this is very abnormal and would my set up to work more seamlessly rather having to do this switch everytime I reboot.

Hey can you elaborate on the solution? I have r730xd w esxi on pcie adapter working fine. I think this is less about pve issue but dell issue. suddenly one day my server restarted and i am at the clover menu, and since then almost every time trying to use clover to boot into my esxi nvme will result "bios halt" in idrac log; where before it just works everytime. nothing changed and don't know the root cause. booting will result in black screen with idrac log "bios halted", if going to efi shell 64 will also result with the screen shot attached. but ocationally going to the efi shell would work, exiting the efi shell and go back booting will also work

 

[CRK1918]

Hi everyone, I currently run into a strange General Exception error when I try to boot into PVE.

Currently I am running PV8 on Dell R730XD:
-CPU: 2683*2
-256GB RAM
-HBA330 (16HDD for Truenas VM)
-Boot drive: Clover on a USB flash
-PVE lives on Samsung NVME 980 Pro 1TB

I have configured PVE for PCI passthrough. a Total of 6 NVME drives and an Nvidia 1080 Ti.

The problem is, everytime I reboot the server I run into an error right after Clover boot selector. The weird thing is, I dont know why this works( I found this fix randomly), if I go to into Bios Device setting and switch between HBA330 bios mode from Legacy to UEFI and reboot, it will all work again. This is weird because, say now HBA is in legacy mode, and PVE boots, next time I reboot, I will have to switch this back to UEFI.

I think this is very abnormal and would my set up to work more seamlessly rather having to do this switch everytime I reboot.

I don't have exactly the setup as you, but I have had a similar issue before with the BIOS boot order and the empty disks being checked first. If the USB is booted first, should not be having any issue