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Install bootloader on SDCARD drive(/sdf) and start ESXi from /sde (HPE Microserver Gen8 specific issue)

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Dear VMware gurus,

 

I have a  HPE microserver Gen8 Xeon1220Lv2.

/sda     4tb data drive

/sdb     4tb data drive

/sdc     4tb data drive

/sdd     4tb data drive

/sde     SSD drive (64gb)

/sdf     SDCARD drive (2gb)

 

Due to the HPE's B120i SATA controller hardware limitation, if I select /sda-/sdd as a data drive, /sde SSD drive cannot be a boot drive.

To set /sda as a boot drive, I have to use B120i hardware RAID1 or RAID0.

 

In order to avoid from this hardware limitation, Microserver Gen8 users are often set /sdf SDCARD drive as a boot loader */boot* partition, and install root "/" partition on /sde SSD drive to install Linux.

 

Then, my question is how to install boot loader on /sdf and root partition on /sde for ESXi installation.

 

Best regards,

hidesan


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