It’s the only thing about these otherwise-capable boxes that drives me crazy. The problem is, that extra SATA port isn’t bootable when using the server in ACPI mode if there are any other SATA drives in the system. Most of us use it for an SSD instead, so we can keep the primary drive bays for storage. If you’re impatient, the script is in my lunchbox.įor some background, the Gen8 MicroServer has a SATA backplane for four LFF drives, and another SATA port intended for a slim optical drive as you can see in the image. I thought I wrote about it a few years ago, but maybe it’s on my proverbial draft heap. Josh Paxton emailed to ask how I got FreeBSD booting on it, given the unconventional booting limitations of the hardware. I’ll try and answer these over the coming week. My small homelab post generated a ton of questions and comments, most of them specific to running FreeBSD on the HP MicroServer.
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