can someone help convert these instructions to a workable solution for “Scale” [image] [TUTORIAL] - Hp smart array p420i HBA mode complete guide. i take 0 responsibility on any unexpected problem with your systems. do this at your own risk, it works for me, i've done 3 times already. Hap…

Yes, they may be better developers. It’s likely only a few of us in the TrueNAS forums are or ever have been software developers. However, TrueNAS does not support a separate “/boot” partition; root@truenas[~]# df -h /boot Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on boot-pool/ROOT/2…

I am not sure what you are trying to do here - and can’t be bothered to read that long external post. If you are trying to use part of a single disk as a boot disk AND a data disk then the general response here is “No - If you need to ask how you shouldn’t be doing this”

I think the original poster is asking for clarification on the instructions to install IT firmware on the “HP Smart Array P420i HBA”. At least that is what appears to be the purpose of the linked post. However, I don’t see anything related to TrueNAS that needs to be done, other than the correct fi…

Using an SD card for a one-off boot of a special environment specifically to e.g. flash an HP P420i to HBA mode is not a problem - and because it is a stand-alone boot it has nothing to do with TrueNAS Scale. Using as SD card as a boot device for TrueNAS Scale however is not a good idea at all beca…

If someone would bother to read my original post, the doc points to a way to install from USB to a pair of drives on an IT mode card. Then move the /boot to SD which is bootable and points to the 2 drives to run the os. Proxmox has included a utility to assist in this process. Maybe they are just b…

This is indeed what I’m looking to do… TY

TrueNAS is an appliance and this is absolutely NOT recommended. If you want to do something like this, you would be better off installing e.g. Ubuntu where you have full freedom to create specialised configurations.

[image] Arwen: However, if you wanted to boot a SD-Card AND THEN chain boot I have to do the same on my HP Gen8 Microserver, so that it boots from an SSD on the 5th Sata port. In AHCI mode, it goes through the SATA ports 1-5 in ascending order, and tries to boot from the first disk it finds, …

Are you trying to tell me that appliances don’t boot from SD card? HP sells dl380s with VMware pre installed on their SD cards… All I’m asking for is some doc that helps circumvent the lack of a bootable device in a very popular hardware choice. “Chain booting” is exactly what we need. If you have s…

No - I am telling you that TrueNAS Scale CAN be booted from an SD but it is a VERY VERY bad idea because your boot drive will quickly die. And I am telling you that TrueNAS Scale is an appliance and that attempting to “fix” this by doing things to move the writable files elsewhere will be a VERY VE…

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P. S. With all of the HP dl380 g8 /9s being dumped on the market… it’s likely not to be that uncommon.

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