Can't install grub on /dev/nvme0n1

[vooze]

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.

 

[wolfgang]

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?

 

[vooze]

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?

Yes, updated as soon as I got it. Updates to 2.50:

http://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/AB350M Pro4/index.asp#BIOS

 

[wolfgang]

Then you have to use the installation on debian.

see
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Stretch

 

[vooze]

Then you have to use the installation on debian.

see
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Stretch

I will try that when I get home today Will report back if that works.

 

[vooze]

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

 

[Carbon]

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.

 

[wolfgang]

Check if you have firmware updates for your Mainboard.

 

[vooze]

Check if you have firmware updates for your Mainboard.

This is happening for all people with some (maybe all) NVMe drives. Like we said before, we have fully updates motherboard BIOS, and it works in 4.4. Please check https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447 - You really need to look into this before 5.1

 

[Carbon]

I installed the latest firmware on my BIOS so I think that's not the problem. But thank you for the tip!