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I'm trying my best to give a full rundown of the steps I've taken since I've received the system. Please keep in mind I'm newish to Linux and this is the first enterprise grade server I bought after hosting proxmox on an old desktop.
I bought an old Fujitsu RX300 S8 with a Fujitsu D3116C Megaraid card. As I wanted to use truenas and ZFS to install the containers and VM's to, I didn't want the D3116C to create a raid array. However, that version of the card doesn't come with IT, firmware. Finding out it was based on the LSI 2208 and knowing that can be flashed to IT mode firmware for cards based on 2308, I did so. I followed this guide with the adaptations from this forum thread of someone trying the same thing on the D3116(non-C) card. The C was just a later revision and those steps worked. My drives, two Seagate 10k RPM 600GB SAS HDD's and one Crucial 500GB Sata SSD, showed up as plain drives in the proxmox installer.
After completing the GUI Install and getting to the reboot phase and unplugging the install USB, it booted me straight back into the BIOS. I was stuck for a while and found out through lsblk, lspci, and dmesg | grep SAS. that it had properly formatted the drives into partitions. But they still weren't showing up in the boot screen, boot settings or bios settings.
I then found out that the bios/motherboard combo in this particular server doesn't support UEFI booting from PCie attached storage. And seeing as it doesn't have available plugs for sata power (the controller backboard is powered by proprietary plug), I have to install it in legacy mode. After enforcing legacy boot media with CSM settings I ran the non eufi installer, but it still wouldn't let me boot. I used the previously mentioned commands and saw it still created an EFI sba volume and used GPT instead of MBR.
It's at this stage that I'm stuck. I can't seem to get proxmox to install to legacy compatible hardware.
It's so unbelievably infuriating slowly getting further and further into the install process, only to get snagged at what feels like the final stretch. So if anyone knows what I should do, or has faced the same issue, please let me know what to do. I'm more than happy to provide console logs, command outputs, whatever is necessary to get support. I just don't know what I should already include in the post as like I said earlier, I'm newish to Linux and don't know what is, and isn't relevant.
Kind regards, and thanks for reading all this:
Rico
I'm trying my best to give a full rundown of the steps I've taken since I've received the system. Please keep in mind I'm newish to Linux and this is the first enterprise grade server I bought after hosting proxmox on an old desktop.
I bought an old Fujitsu RX300 S8 with a Fujitsu D3116C Megaraid card. As I wanted to use truenas and ZFS to install the containers and VM's to, I didn't want the D3116C to create a raid array. However, that version of the card doesn't come with IT, firmware. Finding out it was based on the LSI 2208 and knowing that can be flashed to IT mode firmware for cards based on 2308, I did so. I followed this guide with the adaptations from this forum thread of someone trying the same thing on the D3116(non-C) card. The C was just a later revision and those steps worked. My drives, two Seagate 10k RPM 600GB SAS HDD's and one Crucial 500GB Sata SSD, showed up as plain drives in the proxmox installer.
After completing the GUI Install and getting to the reboot phase and unplugging the install USB, it booted me straight back into the BIOS. I was stuck for a while and found out through lsblk, lspci, and dmesg | grep SAS. that it had properly formatted the drives into partitions. But they still weren't showing up in the boot screen, boot settings or bios settings.
I then found out that the bios/motherboard combo in this particular server doesn't support UEFI booting from PCie attached storage. And seeing as it doesn't have available plugs for sata power (the controller backboard is powered by proprietary plug), I have to install it in legacy mode. After enforcing legacy boot media with CSM settings I ran the non eufi installer, but it still wouldn't let me boot. I used the previously mentioned commands and saw it still created an EFI sba volume and used GPT instead of MBR.
It's at this stage that I'm stuck. I can't seem to get proxmox to install to legacy compatible hardware.
It's so unbelievably infuriating slowly getting further and further into the install process, only to get snagged at what feels like the final stretch. So if anyone knows what I should do, or has faced the same issue, please let me know what to do. I'm more than happy to provide console logs, command outputs, whatever is necessary to get support. I just don't know what I should already include in the post as like I said earlier, I'm newish to Linux and don't know what is, and isn't relevant.
Kind regards, and thanks for reading all this:
Rico
