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    [SOLVED] Restore PVE-OLD to PVE

    On my system with a working instance of proxmox, I was trying to test something by installing a new instance on a secondary drive. I wasn't paying enough attention to reallize that the old system wasn't going to boot by itself anymore, since it is now renamed from pve to pve-old-(something). Is...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox Backup Server Installation Issues – HP Microserver Gen8

    Hi everyone, I'm having trouble getting Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) to boot on my HP Microserver Gen8. The installation completes successfully, but the system doesn’t detect the OS. After booting, I see a blinking cursor, and after a few minutes, the system restarts. Storage controller: Set to...
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    Fedora 41 LXC not starting properly

    I've tried upgrading a Fedora LXC from v40 to v41, but it fails to start, or rather it starts but does nothing. The Proxmox host is updated in full, so should be the latest-and-greatest as of writing. Anyone else seeing this, or can point at what's going wrong? root@pve:~# pveversion...
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    [SOLVED] Error After Boot: eno1: Reset Adapter Repeating

    I noticed that my server seemed to be down, but none of the telltale signs that something was wrong. After going into idrac virtual console, the screen was filled with the same message: [17644.301496] igb 0000:01:00.0 eno1: Reset Adapter When I use lspci -v | grep Ethernet I see that I have 4...
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    [SOLVED] Wait for NFS/Iscsi before starting other vms

    Hello guys! i have truenas as a vm inside of proxmox one issue im facing is sometimes my other VMs run before truenas is actually running so the NFS / Iscsi wont be available. i know i can use startup delay i tried that and did set it to 60s but its not consistent sometimes it takes around 1:30m...
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    Unable to change Legacy boot to UEFI

    I have a Proxmox (currently running version 8.3) server, that was installed on ZFS RAID1 a few years ago, booting Legacy BIOS mode. There is a 512MB EFI partition present on the boot drives, but when I switch the BIOS to EFI boot mode. nothing happens beside the EFI shell starting. Searching...
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    Cannot pin kernel using proxmox-boot-tool

    Hello, I'm currently setting up a testing environment based on a 2 nodes Proxmox cluster. The 2 nodes are absolutely identical machines (micro-PC). I've followed the exact same procedure to install both nodes, booting from the proxmox-ve_8.3-1.iso. Both installations went off without a hitch...
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    backup win10 vm with pxe boot, how to boot without pxe

    Hi folks, i'm a bit of a noob with proxmox. i'm pulling my hair out with anything windows on proxmox.... i have a pxe boot win10 vm (he uses pxe boot in his setup, i do not) that a friend gave me and I was able to get it booted once. I dont remember my config. I have a brand new installation...
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    Damaged SSD after installing Proxmox with ZFS?

    So I have this weird behavior after installing Proxmox 8.3.0 in two ThinkCentre M910Q's that are equipped with a 4TB SSD each. The machines came with a Windows pre installed which seemed to be working fine. I booted into the install ISO and installed Proxmox 8.3.0 (latest ISO download as per...
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    [SOLVED] HELP fixing boot

    Hi, i followed this comment https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/problem-with-pass-through-cannot-change-initramfs.126627/post-631013 to fix my GPU passthrough, the lasts steps of "proxmox-boot-tool" not worked for me and now my PVE (8) is not booting. The commands i have followed was this ones...
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    [SOLVED] Broken Boot ZFS nach Update

    Funktionierender kernel root@srv:~# uname -a Linux svtmb248 6.8.4-3-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PMX 6.8.4-3 (2024-05-02T11:55Z) x86_64 GNU/Linux Nach Update vorhandener Kernel: boot/vmlinuz-6.8.12-2-pve boot/vmlinuz-6.8.12-3-pve beide starten nicht und bleiben bei "failed to load zfs modules"...
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    Can't boot PVE 8.2 ISO (solved)

    We are trying to migrate a running server from LVM disks to ZFS. In order to avoid booting issues and assuming there is no easy migration process we considered installing a clean PVE 8.2 on a new disk, in order to later try to migrate the root configuration, recreate a thin partition over ZFS...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox booting issue

    I keep getting this issue and can't boot into proxmox. I've tried start up with init=/bin/bash and it works when i do read only mode. I have no idea what to do
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    [TUTORIAL] [Boot] Troubleshooting - verbose output

    Unfortunately PVE ships with quiet booting, the screen goes blank and then turns into login prompt. It does not use e.g. Plymouth [1] that would allow you to optionally see the boot messages. While trivial, there does not seem to be dedicated Wiki page on this basic troubleshooting tip. 1...
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    SSD Not Recognized After Installation

    I installed Proxmos on my notebook, but after the installation my SSD with my bootable Windows was no longer recognized, I can no longer reinstall/recover Windows because my SSD is no longer recognized and unfortunately there were important files on the operating system . Any ideas?
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    Why EFI Windows VM sometimes gets stuck at boot?

    Hello everyone, I've been noticing that sometimes, my Windows VM's with an EFI boot on Proxmox sometimes fail to fully boot/load. When that happens, they always get stuck on this exact same screen: This happens on different Proxmox nodes (not clustered) with different versions of Windows...
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    Replace zfs boot disk

    Hello! I run PBS on a zfs RAID 1 with 2x 1 TB NVMe drives as the system / boot disk; I selected this option on install already. Now one of the two NVMe drives died and I removed the disk and all is still working as expected. I want to replace the NVMe now but with a bigger total capacity (2x 2...
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    How to automatically import a ZFS pool with ALTROOT?

    Hi everyone, I have a Proxmox setup which automatically imports the default created ZFS root pool and makes it available as /rpool. That works because a cachefile is used and there's a systemd service importing all pools part of that cachefile. Though, I have one additional pool which I would...
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    Error no EFI partition @ upgrade

    Hi. I've just updated my Proxmox backup server via the gui and I got an issue in the end. I haven't restarted yet, since this reminds me on my pve server that didn't come up again after a regular update. So the question is: What do I have to do to fix this? Here's the output of my console...
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    Loss of the main disk (proxmox), how can I recover my VMs/CTs without corrupting them?

    Hello, I've come to you because I've had a power cut on my DL360p Gen8 machine, and when I try to start it up I get the error “Non-System disk or disk error” (see photo). The previous version installed of Proxmox was the 8.2. I've tried everything, already checked elsewhere, and unfortunately...