Can't install grub on /dev/nvme0n1

vooze

vooze

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Hey

First of, thank you for 5.0! it's been great.

So I have a problem with installing Proxmox 5.0 on my NVMe drive (Samsung Evo 960). When installing from Proxmox install-USB, it will stay at 0% forever. I tried both ext4 + ZFS, same result.

I don't know if this worked in 4.4, but this is a brand new machine with ryzen, so I can't test it :(

I then installed it on my Evo 850 (same size as Evo 960) and simply cheated a bit with "sgdisk replicate, sgdisk random guids, zfs attact rpool 960 850, and then detact 850, so only 960 was left. But! I can't install grub on partition 1, so that leads me to belive that's the problem when using the installer.

root@ryzen:~# grub-install /dev/nvme0n1p1
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.

I have also seen other grub errors when trying this before from a HDD to 960 (instead of 850).

While this is a bit annoying, I can live with it, if you can help me install grub to a bootable USB, so it will auto boot from that.

atm. I'm booting from Proxmox USB and simply select "rescue boot" which works, but not really a good long term solution.
 
Hi,

Proxmox worked since 4.4 perfect on Samsung NVMe disks.
You wrote you have a Ryzen, did you update your bios to the actual version?
 
Okay, so because ZFS is not supported on Debian (on root partition) and the scripts I found did not include support for NVMe, i managed to work around this:

- Install Proxmox 5.0 on SATA-SSD with same size (I used a Samsung 850 evo for SATA, and a 960 Evo for NVMe)
- sgdisk --replicate=/dev/nvme0n1 /dev/sda
- sgdisk --randomize-guids /dev/nvme0n1
- zpool attach rpool /dev/sda2 /dev/nvme0n1
- grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/nvme0n1
- zpool detact rpool /dev/sda2

Kind of a hacky solution, for it works for now. I hope this will be solved in future BIOS updates or newer kernels/grub-versions or something :)
 
I just wanted to install ProxMox and got the same error I think.
I got an Samsung Evo 960 M.2 and the Proxmox installer freezes at 0% during the partitioning process.
This only appears in Proxmox 5.0.
I can install Proxmox 4.4 without any problems. It would be nice if this can be fixed. :)
 
Check if you have firmware updates for your Mainboard.
 
I installed the latest firmware on my BIOS so I think that's not the problem. But thank you for the tip! :)
 
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