Installing SCALE on HPE Gen8: CANT_FIND No such device

[BuckyBalboa]

I just had Core installed on my HP DL320e Gen8 server via (2) m.2 USB drives. Decided to wipe everything and install Scale.

Made another boot device with scale on it, selected my (2) m.2 devices to install on, tried both UEFI and/or BIOS [Yes/No] after I fully wiped them and get this error either way, it seems like it sees the drives one second, then it can’t find them?

I flashed and re-flashed several times with Rufus/Etcher and nothing has worked, this error is persistent.

Found an older post but unclear of what this guy did to fix it:

Installing SCALE on HPE MicroServer Gen8: CANT_FIND_sda3_OR_sdap3

[E_B]

Installing TrueNas Scale: "Can not find sda3 Not a block device"

I just wanted to add something here because I’ve struggled with this issue. When I edited the file in vi initially I totally forgot how important the “indent” before the “sleep” command was and naturally the delay didn’t happen. I subsequently edited that with the indent and I can certainly confirm that in my case the “wait” for the partition happened. However on my HP MicroServer Gen 8 with a single SSD installed on SATA 5 it still failed with the “CANT_FIND_sda3…” error. So now I will try …

There’s an acknowledged bug in the installer but, due to a complete re-write for forthcoming Electric Eel, there’s believed to be little value in fixing this one. (I submitted this bug and the explanation from iX is along those lines, which I think is fair enough).

The solution which I found to work was to say “yes” to EFI boot and, even though my Gen8 does not EFI boot, the machine starts fine and always has done.

[BuckyBalboa]

Here is my progress, are these the errors you speak of or is there any way around this like downloading an older build?

[E_B]

You’ll see the screenshots I submitted in the thread I showed you; I think they do look similar to yours, but what do you think?

I reckon that your best bet, based on my experience of spending hours and days and weeks trying to solve things, is to simply reinstall as per the comments in my posts and that should/might/will be that!

[BuckyBalboa]

Thanks man, which screenshots in which post? Can you give me the lines you edited and where to insert too if poss?

Also, I’ll try again but almost certain I get the same error using bios or UEFI, it doesn’t seem to make a difference

[E_B]

I’ve already sent the link in my original response above; click on that link and scroll down to see the screenshots.

When you worked through the installation process yourself, you have already seen the bit where it asks you if you want to choose EFI or legacy - you showed a screenshot of it:

Choose EFI by saying “yes” instead of “no” and see how you get on. It has worked for me and I have been trying to repair something unrelated so I have reinstalled several times this week. it takes about 10 minutes, including waiting for the machine to boot.

Let us now how you get on!

[blanchet]

This is my solution to install TrueNAS Scale 24.04 on a HPE ProLiant Microserver Gen8.

My hardware is:

• HPE Proliant Microserver Gen 8
• CPU: Celeron G1610T (2.3Hz/2-core/2MB/35W) Processor
• RAM 16G DDR3 ECC
• HP AHCI SATA Controller
• Data disks: 2 x Seagate SATA Ironwolf 10TB
• Boot disk: Kingston A400 120 GB SATA SSD connected to the internal USB port with a Sabrent USB3-to-SATA adapter

When installing TrueNAS-Scale-24.04 from scratch on a HPE ProLiant Microserver Gen8, the installation fails with the error message Cannot find sda3 not a block device.
I have tried this workaround without success.

On the other hand, if I firstly install TrueNAS-CORE-13.3 in BIOS mode, then I can upgrade successfully to TrueNAS-Scale-24.04.

[Whiskydrinker]

No need to install Core. I’ve recently repurposed my old G8 for testing Electric Eel when the beta was released with a fresh install.

Since the installer of the EE beta also failed I’ve just used the installer for Angelfish again to create the whole environment and then just upgraded to EE all the way through by simply using the web interface.

I’ve used Angelfish because I knew that it works as BIOS installation for the G8 due to being an early adopter back then for the release version.
Probably Bluefin or Cobia also works. But I was too lazy to test this due to my knowledge from my previous installation of Angelfish.

[Ron_Burgandy]

I’m sure its been mentioned before,… but… Booting over network with PXE & iVentoy works 100% of the time… so well I use my G8 as a test box for pretty much anything… Install & running latest DSM, Prox & TNS = no issues at all as well as a bunch of other weird stuff Gotta love iPXE!

[E_B]

@Ron_Burgandy

iVentoy

I’d not heard of it before but iVentoy looks good. I don’t know anything about PXE booting (I’ve heard of it but I don’t know what it is); but if the HP Gen8 can do it, I’ll start learning Thanks for the tip!