Impossible to install Proxmox in a Lenovo m70q

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Hi everyone and thank you in advance for the help.
I have been trying to install PM y a lenovo m70q and it is impossible. Flashing the iso with rufus and balena in two differente usb drives did not work. The lenovo even run the os installed from the sdd. I have checked the BIOS options disabling the secure boot, enabling boot from the usb drive and nothing happens. The usb even does not appear in the boot menu. Only with Ventoy I could boot from the usb but when I select, but, when I run the installation, either in normal mode and grub2 mode, graphical o terminal installation in two installation modes, I get the same error: invalid magic number, the kernel have to be loaded first. Or something similar.
Will somebody help me please? Thank you again.
 
Hi everyone and thank you in advance for the help.
I have been trying to install PM on a hp pro desk 600 g1 sff and it is impossible. Flashing the iso with rufus and balena in two differente usb drives did not work. The lenovo even run the os installed from the sdd. I have checked the BIOS options disabling the secure boot, enabling boot from the usb drive and nothing happens. The usb even does not appear in the boot menu. Only with Ventoy I could boot from the usb but when I select, but, when I run the installation, either in normal mode and grub2 mode, graphical o terminal installation in two installation modes, I get the same error: invalid magic number, the kernel have to be loaded first. Or something similar.
Will somebody help me please? Thank you again
 
J-Rod said:
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Hi J-Rod. I do not know. I posted the first one and, it seems that KojoBaiden is having the same problem with a different pc so, he preferred to copy my post and change only the brand and pc model. But, believe me, my problem is real.
 
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jjpd19 said:
Hi J-Rod. I do not know. I posted the first one and, it seems that KojoBaiden is having the same problem with a different pc so, he preferred to copy my post and change only the brand and pc model. But, believe me, my problem is real.
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Yes, that's what I did. I'm facing the same problem brothers. I've tried severally but to no avail. Also tried different bootable usb software. All didn't work.
 
I am sure there are better lists-of-recommendations than this adhoc reply, but here we go:
  • installation from an USB stick may fail in different modes depending on the tool used to put the image on it. Don't use wrappers like Ventoy. (Ventoy is great and I do use it. But not for PVE installation media.) Use "dd". Tools like Rufus have an explicit checkmark to write "dd-compatible". Or use Linux in the first place. "dd" works always
  • Upgrade the BIOS, if possible; don' skip this step!
  • If there is no upgrade available: Reset the BIOS to a clean state = "Factory Reset"
  • boot a "Linux live" system (yes, the PVE installation media qualifies for this, but there is no guide!) and erase the built-in disks. Do this (again) with "dd" or look for tools like "wipefs". My generic choice is a profane "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M status=progress"
Good luck :-)

Added link for completeness: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pve-installation.html#installation_prepare_media
 
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Finally! I downloaded it for the fourth time, tried a third USB flash drive, and it worked.
I do not know what kind of problems could have the download/pendrives but fortunately it works.

Thank you all for your help.
 
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