[SOLVED] Move boot partition ZFS USB

[ntblade]

Update
I got this working. I re-installed to 2 x drives connected to the onboard controller and re-did the procedure to create the bootable USB drive. I then detached the drives and the system had an entry for proxmox in the boot menu this time. I reattached the original drives and had to do a zpool import rpool. Just to be sure I went over the usb creation again just to be sure its UUID got added to /etc/kernel/proxmox-boot-uuids

Maybe not the prettiest solution but I up and running and survived an initial upgrade.

Hope this helps someone else

 

[Tofado]

Hi all,
I'm in a similar position. I installed pve onto 2 x SSDs on and add-in PCIe SATA adapter. The installer see the drives and installs in ZFS RAID 1 but my system is unable to boot from the PCI card.

I'm trying to boot from a usb stick as in the procedure above but the system just boots into what looks like a black grub splash screen that says, "Reboot into Firmware Inerface" and reboots in 10s

I'm unable to boot the system using Rescue mode. I get:

error: nosuch device: rpool
ERROR: unable to find boot disk automatically

If I then try to create a bootable USB I boot in debug mode until the installer runs to disk selection at which point I Alt+Ctr+ F3 and drop to a terminal

I'm able to partition my USB drive correctly, mount rpool and:
mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc
mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /run /mnt/run
chroot /mnt
works fine.

proxmox-boot-tool format /dev/sdX2 --force works fine but proxmox-boot-tool init /dev/sdd2 finishes with output:

Failed to create EFI Boot variable entry: No such file or directory

Can anyone help please? I'm a bit stuck what to try next.

Many thanks

NTB

You need to mount efivars:

mount —bind /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /rpool/ROOT/pve-1/sys/firmware/efi/efivars