I also tried 8.1 ISO many times. Both versions did not work for me. But know I am just interested to know how Proxmox would partition my single disk to try to do the same (or almost) manually.As a data point, there seem to be several people having problems with the Proxmox 8.2 ISO installer... but when they go back to the Proxmox 8.1 ISO installer things work ok.
Not sure if that's useful information now though, as you've taken a different path for installing things...
My first install of Proxmox 8.2 on an Intel NUC - no success
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Ahhh. Does your system use a BIOS, or does it boot from UEFI?
Proxmox seems to lay out the disk structure for things a bit differently depending upon that.
Proxmox seems to lay out the disk structure for things a bit differently depending upon that.
It supports both, I have latest firmware for Bios and also tried both. I spent about 10 days trying all combination of settings, version 8.1 and 8.2, media, flashing mechanisms (dd, bakena, rufus, ventoy), running Ram and integrity checks. Also found many reports of ppl here having same issues.
No worries. I'm pretty sure @Kingneutron's scripts (the disk resizing one maybe?) has the commands in it to create the disk layout the same as what Proxmox does.
Might be best to wait a few hours until @Kingneutron is around to double check, but you could also take a look through the repository meanwhile: https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/tree/master/proxmox
Might be best to wait a few hours until @Kingneutron is around to double check, but you could also take a look through the repository meanwhile: https://github.com/kneutron/ansitest/tree/master/proxmox
Ahhh, I think this is the bit that does the partition layout: https://github.com/kneutron/ansites...oxmox-clone-zfs-bootroot-to-mirror.sh#L50-L59
So, the first partition there is a tiny thing for grub info. The 2nd partition is an efi partition to hold boot stuff, and the 3rd partition there is a ZFS one holding the root filesystem with the Proxmox install.
So, the first partition there is a tiny thing for grub info. The 2nd partition is an efi partition to hold boot stuff, and the 3rd partition there is a ZFS one holding the root filesystem with the Proxmox install.
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After doing some more search, I started believe in my case performance would be better without LVM since it is an abstraction layer for flexibility. A single ext4 partition offers direct access to the disk without the overhead of an abstraction layer. This can result in slightly better raw performance for I/O operations since even with low there is some overhead added by LVM.