I hear you about separate threads, will do. I'll kick it off by quoting this reply and with Lenovo QSI.I recommend you open a separate thread for what you are trying to achieve and your exact issue that you are having. If you have multiple issues with different respins, apps then separate threads for each would be better to get the help you need. QSI of your setup would also be good. You mention 'an old lenovo i5'. What model/motherboard exactly? How did you install the bootloader if any onto the m2 drive when you installed truenas?
I don't understand how truenas could detect the pcie m2 drive if your bios doesn't detect it? Did you do the installation on another machine?
EDIT: when you start your new thread, please confirm
1) what mode you are booting the machine in (bios, efi,csm etc)
2) how you formatted the usb (mbr or gpt)
3) how and where you installed bootloader/grub(?) during the truenas installation
I'll answer your question about m2 drive detection here: it's via kernel modules. Every recent Live boot installer detects it, but they load a kernel, MX included. I'm not sure which module is responsible for that PCIe card tho, and it does no good at boot time (need EFI driver binary that detects that PCIe card. UEFI / GPT is how I install everything now). There's a zfsBootMenu.EFI binary I thought was perfect as it actually boots a very small Linux kernel and is capable of finding bootable partitions in zfs, however TrueNAS has altered zfs in a way zfsBootMenu doesn't understand so that doesn't resolve problem either.
Statistics: Posted by a_freed_man — Thu Jul 04, 2024 8:54 am