MGYVR
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- Mar 14, 2021
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I have tried to research this for a bit now and haven't managed to find any documentation, or forum threads about this. It's kind of an oddly redundant group of search terms so hopefully I'm not just searching the wrong terms or missing something completely obvious... Or being a total moron... If by chance I am, then let me say sorry in advance!
In a nut shell:
1. Installed TrueNAS to a USB drive for basic testing and to familiarize myself with it.
2. Installed a PCIe to NVMe adapter, with two small SSDs in it that I was going to use as boot media.
3. Install TrueNAS from another (install media) USB drive onto the SSDs (create boot-pool and complete setup)
3. Turns out my hardware (or possibly the SSDs) won't let me boot from the SSDs.
4. Leave SSDs in, plug the original USB drive install back in (not the install media, the original install of TrueNAS that I was playing with).
5. Boot from USB but appear to load the boot-pool on the SSDs?
-Everything after the TrueNAS ascii boot options screen loaded WAAAAY faster than I recalled that first USB drive install loading.
-When I check on the boot-pool status it shows the boot-pool as the nvd0/nvd1 device pool which I setup before discovering I couldn't boot directly to it.
-I had already setup a pool of SAS drives in the original USB drive install, which didn't exist when I booted into what I believe to be the boot-pool on the SSDs.
Is this known behavior?
Is this a feasible work around for not being able to boot directly from the SSDs?
This USB drive has an activity indicator light, and it goes crazy for a minute or two during boot, but never blinks at all once everything is up and running...
My hardware is a Dell R730xd, I've only found a few documented (random forum posts) cases of people trying to boot to PCIe SSDs on that particular hardware, I guess the Intel PCIe AIO drives will work, but read conflicting reports about it working through an adapter...
It was just such an odd turn of events, I felt like I needed to consult the community...
In a nut shell:
1. Installed TrueNAS to a USB drive for basic testing and to familiarize myself with it.
2. Installed a PCIe to NVMe adapter, with two small SSDs in it that I was going to use as boot media.
3. Install TrueNAS from another (install media) USB drive onto the SSDs (create boot-pool and complete setup)
3. Turns out my hardware (or possibly the SSDs) won't let me boot from the SSDs.
4. Leave SSDs in, plug the original USB drive install back in (not the install media, the original install of TrueNAS that I was playing with).
5. Boot from USB but appear to load the boot-pool on the SSDs?
-Everything after the TrueNAS ascii boot options screen loaded WAAAAY faster than I recalled that first USB drive install loading.
-When I check on the boot-pool status it shows the boot-pool as the nvd0/nvd1 device pool which I setup before discovering I couldn't boot directly to it.
-I had already setup a pool of SAS drives in the original USB drive install, which didn't exist when I booted into what I believe to be the boot-pool on the SSDs.
Is this known behavior?
Is this a feasible work around for not being able to boot directly from the SSDs?
This USB drive has an activity indicator light, and it goes crazy for a minute or two during boot, but never blinks at all once everything is up and running...
My hardware is a Dell R730xd, I've only found a few documented (random forum posts) cases of people trying to boot to PCIe SSDs on that particular hardware, I guess the Intel PCIe AIO drives will work, but read conflicting reports about it working through an adapter...
It was just such an odd turn of events, I felt like I needed to consult the community...