Clean install of 24.10.0 results in "cannot import ‘boot-pool’ : no such pool available"

TrueNAS General
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Late to the party and definitely not a Linux expert, but did anyone experiencing these problems try and wipe the drive(s) destined for the boot pool with dd(1) already?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1m

HTH,
Patrick