Suggestion on configuration to proxmox developers..

[ckl]

I ran into an issue today when the power went out for hours and my PSU ran out of battery. When the power finally came back on, proxmox booted up but there was one VM, the most important one out of them all, the pfsense firewall, wouldn't come back up. When I was able to get into the proxmox environment, I noticed that it didn't boot because I had done some cleanup some days before and removed the original ISO that was used to install proxmox. The reason why it didn't boot was because during the boot process it was looking at the DVD drive and saw that it was pointing to an ISO which no longer exists.... so it just failed.

I know it is my fault for not removing the ISO from the DVD drive post installation (almost a year ago).

Anyway, I think it would be better for proxmox if the system would continue to boot if the DVD encounters an error instead of the failing. In most modern systems and certainly old ones with DVD drives in them, they all go through a boot sequence looking through an ordered list of drives, disks, etc for anything to boot with. The same should happen with Proxmox VMs. It should check the DVD drive and if it encounters an error such as an ISO that is not bootable or a non-existent ISO then it should continue to check the other disks. Only when it can't find anything to boot with, it should fail.

Thanks.