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    VM Not booting

    I have an ubuntu server vm which I'm running pterodactyl onto it (Panel for games). I had an issue with it and tried to restart the vm. The vm when offline as it should be doesn't come back online. When I look at the bottom it says status: ok tho the vm is still offline. I have not seen any...
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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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    Can't boot PVE after multiple ungraceful shutdown

    I had a lot of ungrateful shutdowns because of regular power outages in my country and didn't notice AC Power Recovery was enabled. When I tried to boot a machine, I faced with fsck error - Bad magic number in super-block . After e2fsck (with force:confused:) this error disappeared, but boot...
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    Need Help with Proxmox Boot Issue

    Hey everyone, I’m encountering a bit of a snag with my Proxmox setup and could use some guidance. Here’s the situation: I have two NVMe SSDs in my Desktop: one with Proxmox installed and the other with Windows. When I unplug the Proxmox SSD and attach the Windows SSD, everything works fine...
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    LXC won't start

    Hello, Ran into a problem with my Proxmox VE. My LXC container, which is my go-to NAS, just won’t boot up after a reboot. Here’s the error it’s throwing at me: run_buffer: 322 Script exited with status 32 lxc_init: 844 Failed to run lxc.hook.pre-start for container "100" __lxc_start: 2027...
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    Migrating to a New Node Fails

    Hi all, I'm having an issue that happens sometimes where when I create a new VM and migrate it to another node of mine (pve12-test -> pve11-test). VM created with: qm create 1170 --memory 1024 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --onboot=1 --ostype l26 && qm set 1170--scsi0...
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    Boot Failed: Linux Boot Manager (2x NVMe on PCI cards on Dell PowerEdge R730)

    Hey, So I am trying to install Proxmox on two Samsung 980 SSD 500GB that is on two RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-PCI208-HS. I am running this on a Dell PowerEdge R730. I am finding them in the install and setting them up as ZFS RAID1. But when i am trying to boot i am only getting the error: Booting...
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    Proxmox Fails Boot - No Error

    Good morning, all! This is my first post here, and I'm only making it because I truly couldnt figure this one out on my own. The other day I shut down my 3 nodes in my homelab server rack to unplug it and get all the dust behind and around it. Upon rebooting, my main node seems to have failed...
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    After PVE 7.4 upgrade, booting could not find vmlinuz-5.15.131-2-pve

    I performed a standard update on my 7.4 proxmox server to get the latest deb11 patches. I did not see any errors during the upgrade, but after rebooting the box for the new kernel, I got this error: Booting `Proxmox VE GNU/Linux` Loading Linux 5.15.131-2-pve... error: file...
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    [SOLVED] [Critical issue] Proxmox won't boot and UEFI boot sequence takes minutes

    Hello everyone. I'd like to ask you for help with my proxmox setup. I will first describe my story and after then the errors. The story: Today i was about to install Hassio so i found nice script that would do it for me (my friend installed it the same way and it is okay so far). It immediately...
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    Windows 11 - KB5031455 (2023-10 Cumulative Update Preview) boots to recovery mode

    Anyone else run into this? Windows 11 Pro/64 on latest proxmox, installing the above update, the VM boots into windows recovery mode, none of the repair options seem to work. Restore from backup and tested several times - installing KB5031455 causes this everytime. Have latest Virtio (240)...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox boot issue

    Hello everyone, I had installed a new LSI 9207-8e a couple days ago and everything was pretty good. A number of reboots were done since the hardware install. The plan was to eventually pass it through to a VM. I had done some reading and found many saying that I should add...
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    Proxmox stuck on Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.

    Hi, I recently went through an outage and when booting Proxmox I get whats in the attachment. And is just stuck after it trying to Remount. Sometimes it gives a VGA output after next, but then stays on that too. Can't figure out a fix.
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    [SOLVED] Bootloop after upgrading to PVE 8

    Hello, I just upgraded from PVE 7 to 8 following the doc, the check list has no errors nor warnings. However, when rebooting after the upgrade, I tried to login physically, I didn't have time to finish writing the password and it rebooted by itself. Second boot I wrote the password and it...
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    [SOLVED] PVE not booting after Ceph installation

    I have a three-node cluster with PVE8 and Ceph installed. The names are pfsense-1, pfsense-2 and r730. I have been running PVE for about a year and recently installed Ceph on these nodes. It worked well, but when I reboot the r730 node, it won't boot (I waited for 15 hours). I reinstalled the...
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    Stuck at EFI stub

    Hi everyone, I've been using Proxmox for a few years now and I've been extremely happy with it. I'm making a new deployment on a Dell Poweredge r530 Server and I'm having some strange problems. I had previously used Proxmox 7.4 with no issues at all, however a fresh Proxmox 8.0 install is giving...
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    [SOLVED] ZFS causes kernel panic after power outage

    Hello all, I am running a Proxmox server on version 7-1.2, few days ago i have experienced a power outage which causes system to fail at boot. When i connect a monitor to display, i saw that ZFS triggers kernel panic and system boot stucks. After that i have booted into recovery kernel, and...
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    Proxmox server not booting -- I'm lost

    Howdy y'all. I've had a debian 8 Proxmox server set up for a while and hosted on a Kimsufi machine. Recently (yesterday) the Proxmox web UI was no longer accessible after a reboot. I've tried booting into a rescue OS within Kimsufi to see if I can see into the lvs filesystem, but I can only...
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    Proxmox host boot access beyond end of device

    Hi, Last night my proxmox host shut down due to a very hot cpu. I have a new fan right now, and temperature is okay now. However, my proxmox host doesnt' boot anymore. The boot hangs with messages like these sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 access beyond end of device I/O error, dev sdb, sector xxxxx...
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    Screen stuck at 'Loading initial ramdisk' but the system is working normally

    Hello, I am using PVE 7.3-1 with GPU Passthrough. It was booting well before. Recently I have made two modifications: 1. My server has one SSD and two HDDs. PVE is installed in SSD. Recently I installed Windows 10 in one of the HDDs. 2. Before my server has 32GB x 1 of memory. Recently I...

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