Installation on DL580 G7 with HBA H220

[LoJo]

Yes, the H240 firmware was upgraded to 6.30

 

[FuriousPy]

and what problem are you having now? still does not recognize the hard drives at the time of starting the installation?

 

[LoJo]

Exactly.
Proxmox installer works fine, and recognize my 6 disks on the HBA H240. Il install it on ZFS RAID10.
When rebooting after install, I see :

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Attemting Boot From Hard Drive (C
error: unknown device 2.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue > _

If I use rescue boot from the Proxmox USB stick installer, I see :

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error: no such device:rpool.
ERROR: unable to find boot disk automatically.

Press any key to continue..._

 

[FuriousPy]

Ok i haved another error in my HP, it didnt install because didnt recognize the disks...

Did you selected the boot order in the storage devices correctly in the BIOS?
HP has 2 "boot order" (one is the Storage Card, and the other is the order in that Storage Card).. put your H240 at first..

 

[LoJo]

Yes, boot ordre is correctlly set.
I think that if I see the grub prompt, everyting is ok in the bios...

 

[FuriousPy]

yes you are right... did you try with another ZFS Raid mode ? like ZFS RAIDZ2 ? just to see what happen...

 

[LoJo]

Install on ZFS RAIDZ-1 : no boot
Install on ZFS RAIDZ-2 : no boot
Install on ext4 : no boot :-(

Th only way is to install Proxmox on the PCIe SSD that I installed for the ZFS cache :-\

I found this : http://www.thecrosseroads.net/2016/02/booting-a-zfs-root-via-uefi-on-debian/
What think about it ?

 

[FuriousPy]

I am out of ideas...

If your MB is UEFI you can try to set the boot devices from the UEFI Bios... the H240 has a UEFI menu if i am not wrong...

 

[Tapio Lehtonen]

Thanks.
It doesn't work : intel_iommu command is not recognized.
I saw that it was possible to change the delay of zfs grub detection (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/grub-rescue.33696/), but I don't know how to do that from the "grub-rescue" prompt :-\

They are not commands, but parameters to the kernel start command.

 

[LoJo]

I tested with Proxmox 4.4 and ZFS RAID10 : no boot :-(
Still stuck in grub prompt :-(

 

[LoJo]

They are not commands, but parameters to the kernel start command.

That's what I mean. I have an error with tis parameter.

 

[LoJo]

Hi,
I solved my problem following this thread : https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/p...440ar-in-hba-mode-hp-dl380-gen9-server.40735/
Thanks ;-)

 

[kobuki]

Hi,
I solved my problem following this thread : https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/p...440ar-in-hba-mode-hp-dl380-gen9-server.40735/
Thanks ;-)

That's a long thread, what was it specifically that helped your case?

 

[LoJo]

I created manualy efi partition, and manualy install grub.

 

[kobuki]

I see, thanks.

 

[FuriousPy]

New firmware for H240 v6.60

 

[Pourya Mehdinejad]

I have a similar problem with G7 and H220, and G8 P420 in HBA Mode,
I have installed the Proxmox successfully on ZFS Raid 1, but it doesn't boot.
Tried all the suggested solutions with no luck.
Any idea would be appreciated.

 

[LoJo]

I have a similar problem with G7 and H220, and G8 P420 in HBA Mode,
I have installed the Proxmox successfully on ZFS Raid 1, but it doesn't boot.
Tried all the suggested solutions with no luck.
Any idea would be appreciated.

Hi,
I think the simplest way is to plug a usb stick somewhere in the case and install grub on it !
I finally add a pci ssd and installed proxmox on it (ext4 ?).
I use the raid disks only for storage.

 

[FuriousPy]

I did not manage to run the proxmox with the H220 ... apparently there is a compatibility problem with the grub driver and sas2

I solved it by placing an HP H240 that uses the sas3 driver and works wonderfull

 

[Pourya Mehdinejad]

I have installed proxmox on 2 x usb disks as zfs raid1 and its working fine.
I have used H220 to directly use my drives for ceph