Proxmox fresh install - Wont boot after

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KevinAls

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Hello proxmox forum!
Im pretty sure this issue is not directly related to proxmox, but I hope someone has a idea.
Recently, I ordered a RH2288H huawei server as a homelab project. It seems to work just fine. The proxmox install on version 8 text works!

After reboot, it doesnt go to proxmox. It just goes to the screenshotted page.



I installed it on a NVME m2 drive that is in the server via a PCIE adapter. Proxmox (And any other OS) can find this SSD just fine, the server simply wont allow me to boot from it.

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I assume that this is UEFI hardware, and the Boot manager does not show any option to boot your OS?

I'm wondering if this is similar to an issue I've had, where the boot entry would disappear after power-cycling the hardware. The root cause in my case was:
  1. On UEFI platforms, there 2 paths to booting:
    1. The firmware will look for bootx64.efi on the EFI partition (independently of boot manager entries), and boot that. This is sometimes called the fallback bootloader.
    2. The OS will create a boot entry in the firmware's boot manager (inspectable/writable with `efibootmgr` in Linux), which can point to an arbitrarily-named efi binary.
  2. I was installing on USB drive, which is "external", and may be missing on power-up.
  3. The UEFI firmware will readily delete UEFI boot manager entries that point to missing hardware, which can easily happen with a USB drive.
  4. Debian installer doesn't care/notice that you're installing to a removable drive, and will only rely on booting via option #2.
`grub-install` provides the `--removable` and `--force-extra-removable` switches so you can install it as a fallback bootloader as well. I think this requires you to set up the usual boot-repair environment: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#via_the_LiveCD_terminal
 
Have you pressed 11 and checked your options in the boot manager? It might be that the drive is simply not enabled as boot option
 
Philipp Hufnagl said:
Have you pressed 11 and checked your options in the boot manager? It might be that the drive is simply not enabled as boot option
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Yep! Not there.

myxal said:
I assume that this is UEFI hardware, and the Boot manager does not show any option to boot your OS?

I'm wondering if this is similar to an issue I've had, where the boot entry would disappear after power-cycling the hardware. The root cause in my case was:
  1. On UEFI platforms, there 2 paths to booting:
    1. The firmware will look for bootx64.efi on the EFI partition (independently of boot manager entries), and boot that. This is sometimes called the fallback bootloader.
    2. The OS will create a boot entry in the firmware's boot manager (inspectable/writable with `efibootmgr` in Linux), which can point to an arbitrarily-named efi binary.
  2. I was installing on USB drive, which is "external", and may be missing on power-up.
  3. The UEFI firmware will readily delete UEFI boot manager entries that point to missing hardware, which can easily happen with a USB drive.
  4. Debian installer doesn't care/notice that you're installing to a removable drive, and will only rely on booting via option #2.
`grub-install` provides the `--removable` and `--force-extra-removable` switches so you can install it as a fallback bootloader as well. I think this requires you to set up the usual boot-repair environment: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing#via_the_LiveCD_terminal
Click to expand...
I think the issue may lie that the server does not allow booting from PCIE. I think a workaround is to install proxmox on the pcie, and move the /boot to a USB inside of the server. Not quite sure how to deal with it yet :)
 
It would be more interesting to see what you get pressing Del and F11
 
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