Good afternoon,

I moved (successfully) my boot from a USB drive to a raid1 SSD pool.

I now have an internal NVME I want to move it to... but I'm getting a few errors with the wizard.

Specifically:

• BOOT_ELIGIBLE_FALSE The system reported that storage boot is not eligible.

• ENABLE_BOOT_TRANSFER_DISABLED Boot transfer is disabled by the current system state.

Not sure how to move forward with these errors.

Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.

You can use this: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/198440-73xx-version-moving-boot-drive-nvmessd-to-another-drive-nvmessd/#findComment-1619744

Thanks for the link @JorgeB

Just so I get this straight... I need to create a new bootable flash drive (can it be the one I recently transferred off of to move to internal boot, or will that cause license issues?).

Create and mount the newly created flash drive to the currently running unraid and copy the /boot/config folder to it

Boot the "new" flash drive, then run the wizard to remove the old boot pool and create the new one.

Why do you want to move from a good RAID1 setup to a single drive? Speed is entirely irrelevant.

7 minutes ago, Soup said:

can it be the one I recently transferred off of to move to internal boot, or will that cause license issues?

It can be that one.

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Why do you want to move from a good RAID1 setup to a single drive? Speed is entirely irrelevant.

I came across a spare 256GB NVMe and don't really have anything else to do with it.

The system is an OptiPlex SFF that doesn't really have a way to properly mount the 2 x SSD's. I want to move the SSD's to my MD1200, but it doesn't look like I can boot off of them if it's there.

@Soup @JorgeB Hijacking this thread, because i want todo a similar thing on my unraid server, but the other way arround.
Hope this is ok, otherwise, just let me know and i move the content over there and link it here.

Currently i am using 7.3.2 with an single nvme SSD, internal boot and cache on it, working flawless, since it was released.
Now i have two SATA 1TB SSD's which i want to use in an raid 1 (for redundency of the internal/boot cache pool).

My plan is:

• Use the mentioned USB method to boot unraid from USB: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/198440-73xx-version-moving-boot-drive-nvmessd-to-another-drive-nvmessd/#findComment-1619744

• create new raid1 (boot!?) pool with the wizard (planning on using zfs for boot and xfs for cache) and migrate my boot to it and reboot

• remove the previous internal boot partition (is this possible, if yes how?), leave the cache as it is.

• stop array, docker & vm

• copy current /mnt/cache /mnt/cache_new (rsync with acl's...)

• assign the /mnt/cache_new to the shares (replacing /mnt/cache)

• start array, docker & vm

• ...and hope the best... 😀
  

Or is there another way for archiving my goal?
I am a little bit scared to mess something up.

Thanks a lot.

Update:
Checked my Mainboard (Gigabyte H610i) and realized it just has 4x SATA ports.
3x of them already in use by the array, so i will ditch my plan for now 😅

Sorry, for hijacking this thread.

Just an follow-up in this thread, which fits my needs better: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/199012-not-possible-to-add-a-second-internal-boot-device-after-already-configuring-internal-boot/#findComment-1635923