- #Clover configurator problems contacting server install#
- #Clover configurator problems contacting server driver#
Save the file, eject the USB drive, and move it back to your server.īoot the server into the bios config and select your new Clover USB as the boot device, save, and restart. Replace the two places you see “your-nvme-guid-goes-here” with the GUID you saved in your text editor in step 11. Replace-this-text-with-whatever-name-you-want Open the /EFI/CLOVER/ist file and replace the contents (entire file) with the following text Copy/paste this GUID into a text editor and close the file. You should see a string that includes the GUID of the drive. Open /EFI/CLOVER/misc/boot.log and search for the last instance of “NVMe” in the file. Shutdown the server and move the USB drive back over to your laptop. You won’t see anything happen on the screen, but behind the scenes Clover will have saved the log file to a directory called /EFI/CLOVER/misc Press F2 to create a boot log on the USB drive. It should finish booting and stop at the Clover boot menu
#Clover configurator problems contacting server driver#
While still on your laptop, open the USB and navigate to the /EFI/CLOVER/drivers/off directory.Ĭopy the “nvme” driver file to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers/EFI and /EFI/CLOVER/drivers/BIOSĮject the USB and attach it to a bootable USB port on your serverīoot the server, enter the bios menu, and change the configuration to boot from the Clover USB
#Clover configurator problems contacting server install#
Plug a USB drive into your laptop and install latest clover bootloader ISO on USB drive Install your target operating system on NVMe drive
Install NVMe drive on PCIe card in server without worrying about the operating system. The advantage is that all of your drive bays can be dedicated as an array for zfs, etc. For example, you can boot the Dell custom version of ESXi that is free on the Dell support site for gen 12 servers directly from an NVMe in a PCIe slot. Once set up, Clover will simply load the NVMe driver and then pass the boot sequence to the NVMe drive to boot the operating system.
You will need a Gen 12 server with an available PCIe slot, an NVMe drive and PCIe adapter, a USB with an OS installer to load on the NVMe drive (e.g., Windows, Ubuntu, pfSense, ProxMox, ESXi, etc.), a USB with the latest Clover bootloader installer, and a destination USB to install Clover on. It is not necessary to modify the bios or buy a special PCIe card. These are the instructions to boot a Dell PowerEdge Gen 12 server from a NVMe drive in a PCIe slot.
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