Hardware specs:
4x SAS SSD drives
Adaptec ASR-8405 RAID Controller flashed to IT/HBA mode
Supermicro X10DRU-i main board
When installing PVE on an individual drive using ext4, I'm able to successfully boot after I identify the drive in the Adaptec controller as the boot drive. When going into the Adaptec controller, I select the first drive as the boot drive. It's my understanding that when ZFS is used, ZFS configuration is sync'd across all drives part of the pool.
I've tried other drives as well, and they all successfully boot PVE after a non-ZFS installation. When I install PVE using the ZFS option with multiple drives in the pool, I'm not able to boot. I've tried various configurations, RAIDZ1, etc. By "not being able to boot", no bootloader is even detected by my BIOS. My BIOS doesn't see any drives as bootable. After post, the controller shows diagnostics that indicate it can see all drives, and that it found what it needs, then it reboots. Once it reboots, the BIOS indicates it couldn't find anything bootable and to press <DEL> for setup or <Ctrl + Alt + Delete> to reboot.
I've been searching for quite some time now for a solution, and I have stumbled across other threads online where people state that it could be the HBA controller not being capable enough. I'm not certain this is the case, so I'm reaching out to the community here.
I'm happy to provide more details as needed. Any help is definitely appreciated!
4x SAS SSD drives
Adaptec ASR-8405 RAID Controller flashed to IT/HBA mode
Supermicro X10DRU-i main board
When installing PVE on an individual drive using ext4, I'm able to successfully boot after I identify the drive in the Adaptec controller as the boot drive. When going into the Adaptec controller, I select the first drive as the boot drive. It's my understanding that when ZFS is used, ZFS configuration is sync'd across all drives part of the pool.
I've tried other drives as well, and they all successfully boot PVE after a non-ZFS installation. When I install PVE using the ZFS option with multiple drives in the pool, I'm not able to boot. I've tried various configurations, RAIDZ1, etc. By "not being able to boot", no bootloader is even detected by my BIOS. My BIOS doesn't see any drives as bootable. After post, the controller shows diagnostics that indicate it can see all drives, and that it found what it needs, then it reboots. Once it reboots, the BIOS indicates it couldn't find anything bootable and to press <DEL> for setup or <Ctrl + Alt + Delete> to reboot.
I've been searching for quite some time now for a solution, and I have stumbled across other threads online where people state that it could be the HBA controller not being capable enough. I'm not certain this is the case, so I'm reaching out to the community here.
I'm happy to provide more details as needed. Any help is definitely appreciated!
