Boot pool missing from dashboard after clean install

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My previous install of TrueNAS 24.10.2 (on mirrored SSDs) was over time migrated to from FreeNAS. Dashboard storage widgets displayed the boot pool and the data pool. Unfortunately I was forced to perform a clean install of TrueNAS to the same SSDs. After the clean install, “zpool status” lists the pool (named boot-pool), but the pool did not appear in the Dashboard nor was it an option for me to select in any applicable widgets.

After I restored my configuration, the previous (overwritten) boot pool (freenas-boot) appears a selectable option when configuring storage widgets. However the new boot pool still does not appear.

I tried this recommendation to use blkdiscard. I then reinstalled TrueNAS 24.10. The results are the same - the new boot pool is not listed and the overwritten boot pool is listed.

This is not my first issue with the 24.10.x dashboard as related to storage widgets (see this post). Does anyone have any ideas?

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AFAIK boot pool is not tracked in the UI except on the manage disks option (it shows the drive and the ppol). Neither of my devices have boot pool in the UI.

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Interesting as my boot pool appeared prior to my clean install. Perhaps at one time Free/TrueNAS did support the display of the boot pool and I was inheriting that “feature” across all of my incremental upgrades?

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Maybe, I came back to scale from freenas, so I dont remember. On scale, I dont recall seeing my boot pool in the GUI.

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As I mentioned in the OP, TrueNAS still recognized the pre-wiped boot pool. For those that encounter a “zombie” pool, these removal instructions worked well for me https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/deleting-a-zombie-pool.90592/

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Can anyone confirm boot pools do not appear in the GUI?

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can confirm and never has on scale.

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