Installing Proxmox on a machine that does not support booting from NVMe and not working sata backplane

[karpuzvepeynir]

Hello,

My server is Supermicro 5037MR-H8TRF. It has one pci slot and its backplane is faulty, no sata disk can work. Is it possible to move only boot partition to usb flash disk? So Proxmox can be boot from usb flash disk and Proxmox installation and virtual machine data can be run on m.2 nvme plugged pci card.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ThomasGlanzmann]

Hello,
yes you can do that. But be advised that the Blades have USB only via a breakout cable and only one break out cable is shipped via bladecenter. Maybe a better option would be to try to boot from the m.2. Or you can use the JUSB2 Header on the motherboard or boot via PXE.

Cheers,
Thomas