[SOLVED] Cannot install Proxmox onto Fujitsu MX1320 M3

[SuohLaevatein]

Hi everyone , im writing this after MANY MANY tries to install Proxmox onto my Fujitsu server.

System: PRIMERGY TX1320 M3
I have a Raid Controller - CP400i and it offers stuff like JBOD, standard RAID configs and etc... I have Proxmox 8.3.1, 7.4.1 and 6.4.1 on Ventoy and none of them are able to see the JBOD setup nor the RAID 0 setup! I have 2 drives currently and i have them setup in a RAID 0. Upon booting ,CMS comes up and tells me what drives available and it knows that the raid setup the proper amount of space and that the VD of the RAID config is available for use . The VD is initialized before hopping into Proxmox.

Despite all of this , i've been unable to get any useful info from Proxmox, but nonetheless , here are some of things i've tried or did.

1. Tried different versions of Proxmox.
2. Set the config in BIOS , where CMS is to UEFI ONLY...
3. Tried JBOD,RAID0, RAID1, the SAS drives in my system are healthy.
4. Upon booting into the installer i entered the "e" , aka , the edit mode and added iommu=soft according to the article someone mentioned in this forum : Fix for UEFI + Hardware RAID + Linux = megaraid_sas io_page_fault
5. I've also tried switching the drivers for the raid controller to the mpt3sas as someone suggested in one of the forums here as well...

Commands ran :

1. lsblk - only sees the USB drive
2.

lspci | grep -i megaraid >> 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadco / LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3000 [Fury] (rev 02)

3. lsmod says >>> megaraid_sas 192512 0


Can someone please tell me if im doing something very wrong. I've been trying for around 2/3 days now and i cannot figure it out. I'd really really appreciate any suggestions,tips or tricks to try and resolve this! I currently have a Proxmox machine but its running on my old PC and i have no problems on it since i dont have a raid controller. On this new server that i bought i have the controller and im really stuck.

 

[gfngfn256]

You could try installing plain Debian - but I'm guessing that also will fail on current versions.

Possibly, this post is relevant where somebody seems to have got it working (same controller?) with the 6.2.16-20-pve kernel.

 

[SuohLaevatein]

You could try installing plain Debian - but I'm guessing that also will fail on current versions.

Possibly, this post is relevant where somebody seems to have got it working (same controller?) with the 6.2.16-20-pve kernel.

Heyy thank you so much for the suggestion , after combining all kinds of solutions into a literal cake i got Proxmox to launch the installer but i'm encountering a new problem now! Instead of finishing up with the installation it says

"Installation of package ceph-common_17.2.7-pve3_amd64.deb failed.

Any ideas or suggestion on this end? For this error i've already tried accessing the bash terminal via ctrl + clt + f3 and installing ceph manually with apt

apt install ceph-common ceph ceph-fuse librados2

I'm gonna assume that does not apply it to the installer apparently ...

 

[SuohLaevatein]

To anyone who may stumble upon this post , i've finally managed to fix all the issues.... i hope...

Solution :
Step 1 : If you have 1 drive and wondering if you can still set the thing up with 1 SAS drive, you can. Access the CP400i software control , make the RAID 0 config and do a fast init on the VB created of your drives. Otherwise , go with RAID 1 or whatever else you want...
Step 2 : In BIOS, make sure your CMS is configured in all entries to UEFI Only
Step 3 : Boot into Proxmox Installer from the usb, press "e" on your keyboard to edit the "grub editor" and add the following lines after the lines where it says something about quiet , at the end of the lines :

intel_iommu=on iommu=pt
OR if you have an AMD system
amd_iommu=on iommu=pt

Step 4 : After using the latest launcher , latest version 8.3.1 i couldnt install it due to some package ceph_common so i just used the older version, in my case it was 7.4.1 and now im just gonna upgrade it.
Step 5 : Enjoy using Proxmox!