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    Proxmox won't boot with SATA drives inserted via LSI SAS 3008 IT

    Hi all, Is there something I need to do to make this card work with Proxmox? I have just flashed the firmware on the SAS card to the latest (16.00.10). It's running in IT mode. At the moment, I have inserted 8x SATA drives and if I boot into the SAS configuration utility it sees all the drives...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox crashes at boot (or reboots) with no reason

    hi everyone, this evening I took off my Proxmox server to install an additional fan. once plugged back it started the boot process as usual and after 1 minute it was off again. Connected ipmi remote screen and nothing seems strange, it just shuts down suddenly after the line "reading all...
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    [SOLVED] Cannot start Proxmox without a network

    Hello, everyone! I have recently moved my Proxmox PC from the office where I've made the setup. As a consequence, the network where it was connected is no longer available. Today I tried to start the PC, without a network cable attached to it; the result - the boot process got stuck somewhere...
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    [SOLVED] LVM device not mounting on boot after upgrade from 5.4 to 6.2.11

    last night I have upgraded my standalone Proxmox installation to 6 and rebooting ended up in emergency shell. I found that what prevent booting is the lvm volume I had in fstab, after commenting it, proxmox booted. I tried nearly all formats of mount in fstab and non of them worked. I tried...
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    [SOLVED] Updated bios now stuck on reading all physical volumes...

    I am in desperate need, I have messed up.. I had an issue with a new m.2 SSD not showing up so I decided that updating my bios might be a solution. However after I updated the bios all the settings changed to default and I had to redo them. After redoing the settings as I remember them...
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    [SOLVED] Help - Proxmox VE server fails boot after power outage

    Hi, after power outage I face this issue: Proxmox VE server fails to boot. I started Live-CD, mounted LVM-root and boot partition and chroot in the system. However there are many commands not available, e.g. ls mount pvs ... I can install packages like coreutils, lvm2, ... but this does not...
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    bios boot partition configuration problems

    My server is using LVM,One day I was going to add ZFS in, the build process went well, but when i migrated the VM, the console following error: create full clone of drive sata1 (sdb:100/vm-100-disk-0.qcow2) drive mirror is starting for drive-sata1 drive-sata1: Cancelling block job drive-sata1...
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    Clonezilla HD to SSD not booting

    Hi, I used Clonezilla for clone my 500gb proxmox raid (2 disks, zfs) on 2 1TB ssd disks. None of the disks boot. Loading one of the disk in a usb to another linux system with zfs utilities installed, i can see 3 partitions: sda1 type BIOS boot content unknown size 1MB sda2 type ZFS content...
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    Stuck in grub rescue during boot with zfs

    I recently rebooted a proxmox 4.5 machine after having it running a rather long time and it is now stuck in grub rescue. It uses root on zfs. error: no such device: c747d64b46956a22 error: unknown filesystem. Entering rescue mode... grub rescue> ls (hd0) (hd0, gpt3) ... [all disks and...
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    Grub not booting ZFS rpool after disk replacement

    I had one disk producing read errors in my 15 disk ZFS raid-z2 pool and replaced it offline. Trying to boot the system ended in grub rescue mode: error: no such device: <hex string>. Entering rescue mode... I booted with sysresccd+zfs and was able to import the pool with zpool import -o...
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    Boot lvmid issue. Grub rescue

    After an outage Im not able to boot my home server. Its a HP Proliant g8 with a microsd and 2 hdds with raid1 Proxmox 4.4 is installed in the microsd and all containers and data I have are on the hdds This is the error Im getting: error: disk 'lvmid/h7PJQA-GR59....' not found. Entering...
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    Booting from USB stick works but not ext. SSD!

    Hi, Have been fighting with this for 2 days now. In order to get more free space for more hdds inside the whitebox cluster I have, I bought external disk caddies that I thought I'd boot from. Booting from the Proxmox USB stick and installing it on the external USB drive, with the old drive...
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    Cloned HDD, guest wont boot

    I' not sure how much details to go into. I cloned my lone proxmox disk using DD. there was a power failure during the process so I booted the original up again to make sure. It worked but an ubuntu guest wouldn't boot. I finished the clone and proxmox boots from the new disk. That same ubuntu...
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    How-to: fix non-booting (Linux) VM imported from a Gen2 VM Hyper-V source.

    The problem An imported Gen2 Hyper-V VM won't boot. You get an EFI Shell or you are just stuck in the boot sequence. When you go into the UEFI BIOS (press ESC during startup of the VM) you are able to make modifications and boot from a file. This works, but you are not able to save changes...
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    Proxmox 5.2 doesnt boot in HP Proliant DL120

    Hello, A few days ago, I installed proxmox in a server HP Proliant DL120,but it doesn't run. Any idea? I used that server with VMWare ESXI 6 booting with UEFI without any issues. Is there any special configuration?
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    Proxmox (on ZFS) refuses to boot after the latest kernel upgrade

    Hello! About a month ago I've decided to give Proxmox-VE a try. The installation and the creation of a few test VMs went without hitches. Everything was working smooth (reboots also) until yesterday when I performed dist-upgrade to version 5.1.42. After the upgrade I had to reboot because of...
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    P hangs (Import ZFS pools by cache file)

    Hi. My Proxmox test server does not start anymore. It hangs with the message "A start job is running for Import ZFS pools by cache file (x min y s / no limit)" I did it myself, but I don't know how to get out of it without a new installation. What I have done (strongly shortened, but should...
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    Proxmox 5.1 won't boot on ZFS and 440AR in HBA mode (HP DL380 Gen9 server)

    Hi everybody, I want to install Proxmox 5.1 on HP DL380 Gen9 with UEFI Mode. I managed to switch the HP Smart array P440ar controller to HBA mode. The problem is that once Proxmox 5.1 is installed and the server is restarted... the server does not start on the "Proxmox" installation because it...
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    Proxmox 5.1 - ContainerTemplate Basis Debian 9.3

    Hallo, wenn auf der Basis des LCX-Templates "Debian 9.0" (Version 9.3.1) ein neues Virtuelles System erstellt wird, kann es beim Booten zu der Meldung "A start job is running for Raise network interfaces" kommen. Bei dieser Meldung wird max. 5 Minuten gewartet, ehe der Bootvorgang fortgesetzt...
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    can't access tty: job control turned off -> after Failed to mount rpool/ROOT/pve-1/XXXXXXXXX

    I got the error message during boot. Errors during boot: First I get the error: Failed to mount rpool/ROOT/pve-1/XXXXXXXXX Then I get the blocking error: /bin/sh: can't access tty: job control turned off Last Things done on Proxmox: I activated Proxmox Cluster Installation and tried to bind...

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