Supermicro X10SRi-F + aoc-slg3-2m2 Boot Issue

[LIGISTX]

*Solved. I don’t have UEFI boot enabled. How embarrassing. 
 

I am attempting to instal Proxmox in a ZFS Mirror on my Supermicro X10SRi-F, this is potentially an important factor, and I can’t seem to get it to boot into Proxmox.

I have a feeling there is some “issue” between BIOS settings, legacy vs UEFI, or some boot manager issue I am just not familiar with as I am not very smart on UEFI - I mostly have no idea how to use it beyond “it worked” or “It isn’t working”. I am able to boot off a USB stick, get it installed, but once I reboot, the system sees no bootable devices and will cycle through all boot options until it runs out asking me to reboot and select or insert proper media.

 

The reason I bring up the motherboard, it “supports” NVMe boot, and “supports” bifurcation (quotes on those because only the latest BIOS enabled these features, and there is not a lot of documentation as a result). I am using a supermicro aoc-slg3-2m2 PCIe card which has 2x nvme slots. I have been using this card with this mobo for over a year with a single boot drive without issue, running Proxmox and have been very happy. But I have decided to move to a mirrored boot drive for high availability and I just can’t get it to work. It took some tries to get bifurcation to work, but I was able to get both drives to show up in the Proxmox instal GUI, so theoretically it is formating them correctly.

 

Is there a correct assumption of “if it does see both drives in the installer, there should be a way to get it to boot from them”? Or is this not actually always a true statement?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Does the board let you turn it to a uefi only mode? I'd do that here, should be no reason to have legacy boot enabled here. 

 

What does the boot menu show you? Does it show the nvme drives as uefi devices you can boot from ?

 

Could be something weird where the boot doesn't boot from some specific nvme drives, and that could be the issue here.

 

Do a bios update if you haven't already.

[LIGISTX]

23 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Does the board let you turn it to a uefi only mode? I'd do that here, should be no reason to have legacy boot enabled here. 

 

What does the boot menu show you? Does it show the nvme drives as uefi devices you can boot from ?

 

Could be something weird where the boot doesn't boot from some specific nvme drives, and that could be the issue here.

 

Do a bios update if you haven't already.

Ya I solved it. It was set to boot either BIOS or EUFI, which caused it to favor BIOS. So it booted Proxmox installer via BIOS not UEFI, which was likely why it didn’t install it correctly. 
 

Set it to UEFI only, worked immediately.