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    In running home lab environments, many are looking at mini PCs that are available to stand up and use as a home server or home lab environment. Intel-equipped variants generally have the new “hybrid” architecture that includes the configuration of performance and efficient cores (P and E cores). With this being the case, a few …

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    I was using a redpill loader before and I migrated the loader to a new location, now the hard drive didn't boot. I have to move it off before I decommission my old hard drive based "rpool2" ZFS pool with damaged drives in it. Those drives are now inside a real NAS but unfortunately with a lot of unexpected turn of events, didn't get to installed even till this day (I just got a new PSU for that but I'm still missing the fucking power delivery cables since the merchant missed it, and I have to wait until a few days later, yikes)

    Fortunately, long as the data is intact in the data disk, all of the settings can be replayed with a new installation. Now I can either just use ARPL as usual, or use a new tool called https://github.com/AuxXxilium/arc.

    You will need to download the raw IMG variant and get a raw image that can be handily imported via qm disk:

    root@serv:~# qm importdisk 100 arc.img local-zfs importing disk 'arc.img' to VM 100 ... transferred 0.0 B of 1.0 GiB (0.00%) transferred 12.0 MiB of 1.0 GiB (1.17%) ... transferred 1.0 GiB of 1.0 GiB (100.00%) Successfully imported disk as 'unused0:local-zfs:vm-100-disk-0'

    After that, attach the disk in Proxmox web UI. Both SCSI and SATA mode is fine but not VirtIO Block mode (obviously not). You would also need to enable the disk in the boot order because it wasn't added to boot matrix by default. Then boot it up and you should see a text UI asking you to install. Just follow the instructions and you will be set.

    Honestly the UI is so much better:
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    I'm going to try this on real hardware soon, that thing comes with mSATA though.