[SOLVED] Making zfs root mirror bootable (uefi)

[piod]

Hi,

I attached a disk for the root file system to have a mirrored zfs pool. Resilvering was no problem, but how can I make the second disk bootable?
I am new to UEFI and do not know any of the relevant commands.

The original device:

Device           Start        End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme1n1p1      34       2047      2014  1007K BIOS boot
/dev/nvme1n1p2    2048    1050623   1048576   512M EFI System
/dev/nvme1n1p3 1050624 1000215182 999164559 476.4G Solaris /usr & Apple ZFS

The new device:

Device              Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1000198143 1000196096 477G Solaris /usr & Apple ZFS
/dev/nvme0n1p9 1000198144 1000214527      16384    8M Solaris reserved 1

Am I right, clearing the second device, making a partition for EFI and one for ZFS, resilvering the ZFS and marking bootable?
But I'm sorry I can't find out how tho do is.

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Depending on how and when the system was setup it could be as easy as: `pve-efiboot-tool init /dev/nvme0n1p2` - this is if the system is booted with systemd-boot (i.e. got setup with PVE 6.0) - see the reference documenation: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#sysboot

I hope this helps!

 

[piod]

Thanks for the hint. This was the missing command I was looking for.
Now everything is working!

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Glad that worked out

please mark the thread as 'SOLVED' - this helps other users in a similar situation

Thanks!

 

[dlasher]

This solved my problem as well - thank you.

Somewhere there should be a short "Admin HowTo" list, because this would be part of a document labeled: "How to replace a ZFS boot disk in a mirror set for Proxmox"

(To be fair - this : https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html - is a pretty solid page)