Install perfect, but reboot says no boot device

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Hello,

I’m very new here…I have finally gotten a HBA card and i can see all my drives in the card interface as well as when i install truenas. I can choose 2 ssd drives to install the OS to, but when it says reboot…my machine sees no boot devices.

I currently have the bios set to UEFI, and no swap setup during install. i would sure appreciate any advice for the fix.

I’m using an LSI 9300 card in IT mode
2 ssd’s for OS, (note, i’ve not tried to just choose a single ssd drive during install yet…will try that next) but was hoping to have both in RAID 1 mirror…maybe do that after install? would need a little advice on that as well.

Thank you for any help,

Ike

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And your intended boot devices are connected to the HBA? Have you flashed the boot BIOS to that card?

We don’t ordinarily see boot devices hung on the HBA; they’re generally on the motherboard directly. But there’s no inherent reason it shouldn’t work.

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Hello Dan,

I did not flash anything on the card, just plugged it in. I was told it’s been flashed to IT mode, but i do not know how to ‘prove’ that yet. I took them at their word.

if i put bios into legacy mode, i can use ctrl-C to see the drives on the hba, though it’s just informative. again, the truenas os installs all the way to 'completed successfully, reboot…etc." and then i get no visible boot device seen. even when i employ f11 to enable boot menu, no drives show up in the list as a bootable device.

would moving the os drives the the motherboard sata port improve this situation?

ty for any further advice Dan

Ike

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I’d think so. Your system isn’t seeing the drives connected to the HBA as available to boot from, so this avoids that problem. I can’t guarantee it will boot, but it would at least remove one variable.

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I will try it…it’s in a backplane connected via the sff cable so i might have to remove the drives and dirty plug them in with a simple sata cable and find power via a molex4 pin…

I’ll try this asap and report back… as it’s friday i might just turn it off if i can’t find progress in my favor… it’s been a long week.

thank you so much for the great advice…i’ll report back at latest tomorrow…but hopefully in about an hour

ike

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Hi Dan,

success. I could find no way to put the 2 ssd’s onto the motherboard while jacked into the backplane, so I opted to whip out an NVME drive and instant success.

the boot up , all issues…appear perfect.

all drives are detected in the OS once logged in and on the drives page.

I’ll just put the 2 ssd’s back onto the card and use them as some kind of backup if possible since they could be seen but not boot from.

i’m going to say this issue is resolved. thank you

Ike

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