[SOLVED] Strange Boot Issue with LSI Card

makeme11

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I am having a strange issue at boot that I cant figure out. I have dual xeon 2660s on a supermicro X9DRi-LN4+ with 96GB of RAM. The proxmox install is on a SSD connected to the onboard SATA. I also have a LSI SAS2008 HBA card flashed to IT mode and connected via a backplane to 16 spinners of various brands and capacity. I'm on a new install of PVE with the most recent kernel.

When I boot past the grub menu with the LSI card and all drives inserted into their bays, I get a message about not finding the volume pve and it ends up kicking back to the initramfs prompt. If I pop all the drives out during boot and leave the card in, I get the 'cannot find volume pve' message a few times, and then it boots into the system, I'm able to reinsert the drives and I can operate the system as normal. If I take the card out completely and boot, I do not get any error messages about the pve volume and it boots cleanly. The actual pve volume is on the SSD connected to SATA. I already tried the 'root delay' in grub and it did not have any effect.

Has anyone seen anything like this and/or have any ideas for a fix? Thanks all.
 
Thanks! That led me to look at the BIOS since I just updated and storage ROM was set to UEFI only. Set to legacy and the system booted, although I did still get several 'pve not found' messages before it finally booted to prompt.
 

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