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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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    [SOLVED] Server won't boot: Failed to mount rpool/ROOT/pve-1/… on /root//… no such file or dir

    Hi, This morning I found my proxmox server down. When trying to restart, I had this message: Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device Command: mount -o zfsutil -t zfs rpool/ROOT/pve-1/be64[...]7d /root//be64[...]7d Message: filesystem 'rpool/ROOT/pve-1/be64[...]7d' cannot be mounted at...
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    Crashed Proxmox4 reboots only to the grub boot prompt!?

    As @guletz stated at https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/crashes-with-zfs-root-and-stuck-on-grub-rescue-prompt.34172/page-2#post-168936, I am also getting only the grub boot prompt in a machine WITHOUT hw RAID with zfsroot running proxmox 4.4 which crashed without a reason. grub > insmod zfs...
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    NFS startup job hangs

    I've updated yesterday my Proxmox VE server through the GUI. Since it contains a kernel upgrade (4.10.17-3-pve), it advised me to reboot. So I did... But unfortunately, the boot process hangs with following error: When I start the machine in 'single' mode, click 'CTRL-D', it boots normal. It's...
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    Serious VM Crash, Newbie Help

    Hi All, So I've had a promos server running form OVH for about a month now, And today I started having some serious issues.. About 80% of my VMs are not Booting up.. My main priority at the moment is to get my main LXC up and running, Its loaded with Centos7 When I try to boot it I get the...
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    PVE host: what is /boot/grub/device.map trying to do?

    I've got a weird problem with a PVE host machine that refuses to reboot without me having to explicitly choose the boot device from the BIOS. Looking for clues on this I see /boot/grub/device.map contains the following. Does anyone know what this is trying to do? (hd0)...
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    error: couldn't find a valid DVA

    Hi All, I'm hoping someone will be able to help me. I have Proxmox 4 installed on a ZFS array of 4 x 3TB SATA drives that was configured during the initial Proxmox installation. This has worked fine for quite some time. However, today I rebooted the server and during boot, GRUB (version...

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