proxmox 8.2 installation problems

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robertoSEA

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Hi everyone. I have a proliant DL380 gen8 with integrated p410i hw raid, but I also purchased, following the forum's suggestion, an HP h220 controller. These are my available disks:
3x1.2TB sas 10K
2x800GB sas SSD
2x300GB sas 15k (old disk but working)

At the beginning, before purchasing the HP H220 controller I installed Proxmox 8.2 using this configuration on the hw raid controller, creating different volumes:
2x300GB in raid 1 vol 1
2x800GB ssd in raid 1, vol 2, where I installed proxmox
3x1.2TB 10k in raid 5
I haverinstalled proxmox on the raid 1 volume composed of 2x800GB in raid1
proxmox completed the installation and started normally; but then I decided to change the configuration so as to do a new installation.
FROM NOW on all the installations have failed and I can no longer install Proxmox, no matter what configuration I choose.
all subsequent installations completed correctly.. (during the final phase of the installation I saw boot creation), but when I restarted proxmox it did not start, and the system asked me for a bootable disk, as if the installation had never happened.
so looking in the forums, I was advised not to use HW raid and to buy a hp h220 controller and configure it in hba, in order to create the raid inside proxmox, with zfs file system.
so today I have installed the controller and during the installation I created a raid 1 zfs on the 2 800GB ssd disks.
the installation went ahead, but even now when I restart the system says that there is no bootable disk, and therefore the control did not solve my problem.
can you kindly tell me how to solve it? I bought disks, controller and memory and I can no longer install proxmox
PLS HELP ME
 
Daniel_Dog said:
Did you check in the BIOS if there is a bootable partition on any disks that the BIOS can see?

Sometimes the BIOS sees the new bootable partition but just ignores it. So just to be safe also make sure it is set to boot the proxmox ve boot partition in the BIOS.
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are u meaning server bios ?
 
hi i have checked the bios..
i have done these things:
1.Restore setting7Erase Boot disk
2. setted the hp H200 controlle like first boot controller
3. i have installed one more time proxmox buinding a raid 1 volume with zfs file system

but nothing changes...
after ended the proxmox installation the system doesn't find a valid boot disk, and seems that the installation has not been carried out

it's very very strange because during the installation proxmox see all the disk... and this happaens with the old integrated controller 410i...
what can i do?
 
Is your RAID card in HBA mode?
As ZFS does not support RAID cards and ZFS advices against RAID cards. (Or only use HBA mode as it allows to bypass the RAID card and allow direct access to the disk.)

If it is not in HBA mode it can cause all sorts of issues. Hence the reason it is not supported at all.
 
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someone have suggested me to buy hp H200 controller because it's support hba.
i have done login on the raid card selecting f8, but there aren't option to select... i can't configure nothing.
i guess and frankly speaking hope that h200 support hba feature but i can't see nothing about it.
i can only see that, differently of P410i that doesn't support HAB,m the server during the book shows all disks separately... like the picture in attach.
do u think tath hba is supported?
 

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From my quick research it should support is as a hybrid mode. (So if no RAID is configured it should just pass it though as HBA.)

But could you try installing proxmox on a RAID disk? (create the RAID via the controller and not though ZFS)
I wonder if then a bootable partition will show up in the BIOS as a boot option.
 
Daniel_Dog said:
From my quick research it should support is as a hybrid mode. (So if no RAID is configured it should just pass it though as HBA.)

But could you try installing proxmox on a RAID disk? (create the RAID via the controller and not though ZFS)
I wonder if then a bootable partition will show up in the BIOS as a boot option.
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the strange thing is that entering in the h200 configuration, i can not set anything. there isn't possibility to create a Raid ..
however when i have used the integrated P410i controller, i could set several types of raid; furthermore the first time I managed to install proxmox on a volume created on raid 1 and it worked. then I had the unfortunate idea of doing a new installation, and it didn't install anymore..
help help help
 
Did you get into Intellegent Provisioning (F10)?
And if I just google HP h200, the only thing I get is Dell H200.
I know HP(E) servers are extremely picky (at least in my experience) about only using HP(E) OEM parts and just refusing to work with anything else. (And when it works with none HP parts it only works "sometimes", just for the fun.)

ANd don't get me wrong I also run HP(E) servers but I hate HP(E) for the OEM locking they do.
 
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oh someone have given me a wrong suggestion... i have already bought the HP220...
could i remove it and use the p410i integrated raid controller?
the first time the installation worked
 
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