VM unable to boot from HBA (H710p mini)

acdoussan

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Hi, all:

I have an existing truenas installation on my R720 that I am trying to migrate to proxmox. Truenas is installed on 2 of the SSDs attached to the H710p mini that I have flashed to IT mode. Typically I boot from this on my server to run truenas. I recently added 2 SD cards and installed proxmox on it, enabled IOMMU, and passed through the h710p to a fresh VM. On booting this VM, I see the Avago utility initialize, and successfully state that there are 16 drives available. The VM then continues to the proxmox splash screen and then states there are no bootable devices and reboots.

Is there some special configuration I need to do to get this working without mounting a traditional scsi boot drive? I have enabled the PCI device as bootable in the proxmox configuration, and it appears that this guide has had this work? https://www.joeplaa.com/how-to-install-truenas-as-vm-in-proxmox/. I have double-checked in the Avago utility that it is configured for both BIOS + OS access and that the boot order is correct.

I have even tried mounting a small drive with nothing installed to see if that would resolve it, but it made no difference. Attached are screenshots showing the boot process/config.
 

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Wow, I actually just figured this out myself, I had to UNCHECK the PCI device as bootable. Then it saw the drives and booted truenas! woohoo!
 

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