Hello, I am a newbie to ZimaOS.
I’ve done some tests on a VM, ZimaOS seems to be running smoothly. Then I decided to put it on a real server, which is a Dell R630 with H330 on HBA mode, connecting 2 SSD and 2 SAS drives. Inserted the USB installation thumb drive, the ZimaOS installation screen came up, I selected Install, and the next page only showed “No devices were found”.
I’ve then recreated the USB drive a few times, tuning the BIOS for different settings, with no luck.
Yes it is UEFI, and Secure Boot was disabled.
Any hints would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
This isn’t a USB or BIOS problem. On the Dell R630 the PERC H330, even in HBA mode, relies on the LSI megaraid/SAS driver stack, which the ZimaOS installer kernel doesn’t include. The installer boots normally but can’t see any disks, so it reports “No devices were found”. That’s why recreating the USB or changing UEFI and Secure Boot settings doesn’t help.
ZimaOS installs cleanly when disks are presented as plain AHCI SATA or NVMe, but it currently won’t detect drives behind PERC or other SAS controllers. Because of this limitation, I run ZimaOS as a VM on Proxmox on my own hardware, an Intel Core Ultra 7 265K on an ASUS TUF GAMING Z890-PLUS and it runs perfectly stable that way. Other options are installing to an AHCI SATA or NVMe disk, using a simple SATA HBA, or waiting for SAS support to be added to the installer. The hardware itself is fine; this is simply a current ZimaOS limitation.
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@gelbuilding Thank you for clarifying the situation. Cheers.