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    Native uefi installation

    I have LSI controler 3108 and 2x6TB disk in raid 1 Setup computer is boot UEFI mode. When I install Windows 10 or Debian 9.1 system boot OK Proxmox default installation, not boot. I checked partition on disk Proxmox: 1. /dev/sda1 2048 start, size 1MB Bios boot 2. /dev/sda2 4096 start, size...
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    Virtual Disk Gone Missing

    Hi, I am having a bit of a crisis with Proxmox V5 at the moment, One of our critical corporate servers local backup has been failing since Thursday night with the following message: 'command 'rsync --stats -X -A --numeric-ids -aH --delete --no-whole-file --sparse --one-file-system --relative...
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    Proxmox5.0 / VM will not boot from CDROM

    Hi all, I am creating a VM with a centos iso installed as a CDROM (ide2) and the VM will not boot from cdrom. The seaBIOS sits there doing nothing. I am doing the same thing on proxmox4.4 and the VM boots just fine from the same iso. The VM options look the same on both proxmox 4.4 and 5.0...
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    Upgraded to 5.0 headaches

    So I just upgraded to 5.0-23 tonight. When I try to boot the system, I now receive this error: [28.072000] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! [swapper/0:1] The machine will keep spitting out variations of that error (only thing that changes is the timing. Instead of 23s it...
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    Umstellung KVM Guest auf Proxmox, VM ohne Kernel

    Hallo, ich stelle gerade von einer UCS KVM auf Proxmox um. Eine der Maschinen hat keinen eigenen Kernel und wird über einen externen Kernel gestartet. <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.1'>hvm</type> <kernel>/boot/vmlinuz-4.1.0-ucs190-amd64</kernel>...
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    VE 3.4 boot problem after disk replace

    Hi All, First time poster. I've been running a 3.4 install for several years now(24/7) - without any problems. It's a small NAS box running 4x2TB 3.5 Hard Drives in a Raid10 configuration(single zpool). I recently decided to upgrade drives 3 & 4 to 6tb drives. I had previously successfully...
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    [SOLVED] PCI passthrough not booting

    Hello, I'm trying to enable PCI passthrough for two GPUs on our DELL PowerEdge R720. I followed the instructions on https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Pci_passthrough. After rebooting I landed in the "grub>" command line. I could recover the system by using a live CD and removing "intel_iommu=on" in...
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    [SOLVED] What is preventing Proxmox from being optimized to run on a USB flash drive?

    The general consensus seems to be that reading and writing onto a USB often would wear down the flash drive quickly. However, I believe ESXi loads the hypervisor into memory on boot. What is stopping Proxmox from implementing a similar setup?
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    After unplanned reboot locked VMs don't start

    Occasionally we experience unplanned, spontaneous reboots on our Proxmox nodes installed on ZFS. The problem we are having is related to vzdump backups: if a reboot happens during an active vzdump backup that locks a VM, after reboot the locked guest will not start, and needs to be manually...
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    Install on Dell SC 1435

    Hey Everyone, I am getting an error after install on boot up of the Proxmox VE 4.4, I am using a Dell SC1435 Server Dual Quad Core AMD Opteron cpus 16 gb of ram, 1 tb drive. 2 GB NICs I understand the volume group is not found nor the LVM Which is ludicrous because every other one...
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    Emergency Mode after each reboot

    Hello, We have 8 proxmox machines in a cluster, four of them were installed with the 4.2 ISO and the other four were installed with the 4.4 ISO. We updated the 4.2 to 4.4 using the community updates. These four machines sv1n1 to sv1n4 are having issues booting up, the Emergency mode message...
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    loading initial ramdisk hang, after reboot

    I have a full pve envirement running with 3 nodes with block storage ceph for HA with packet (bare metal). The cluster was running great. Today i was working on an overlay network and after every change i rebooted the server (call me lazy). After 5 or 6 reboots the serer hang during boot. Packet...
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    Change vm boot order via api?

    how do i set the boot order of a VM via the api?, i cant seem to find it in the config or any other documentation.
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    Can't boot VM after controller passthrough

    Hi, guys! Can you help me please? After storage controller passthrough (like this post https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/raidcontroller-hp-p410-passthrough-probleme.30547/) I can't boot VM in Proxmox 3.4 (see screenshot https://cloud.openmailbox.org/index.php/s/hBnprLM1qcbFSbQ). I think it try...
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    ISCSI Multipath does not create mapper devices during boot

    i want to use my iscsi target as volumegroup using multipath i configured multipath and "systemctl status multipath-tools" says "active (running)" but will not create the /dev/mapper/ devices i "fixed" it by adding "systemctl restart open-iscsi.service" in the rc.local how can i be sure that...
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    How to delay boot of FIRST VN

    I have created a dummy VM with Order=1, and Startup Delay = 60 so as to delay the start of VM2, which is set as Order = 2. (because VM2 won't start immediately Proxmox powers up, but does manually after a delay). Is there a better way? Is there a way of delaying the "Start all VMs and...
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    Starting node takes 10 minutes... before boot

    If I reboot proxmox, all nodes come up really fast as it should. But one Node need 10 Minutes before it begin to boot. I start the VM 105 and open the VNC-Viewer on it. Screen keeps Black for 10 Minutes. After 10 Minutes I see the Boot-Process starting in VNC. Why are there such a delay...
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    BIOS boot image 4.3

    As of Proxmox 4.3, every VM has a custom Proxmox image that shows up on boot from the VM's console. Is there a way to customize that image?
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    [SOLVED] After Update -> Grub rescue console

    Hey folks, I installed Proxmox today (downloaded yesterday). It was success full installed (ZFS) and created some vms. Everything was fine and reboot was all ok. Then I performed an update (without any errors). After this reboot, the system does no longer boot. To be precise, the server boots...
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    [SOLVED] Boot Drive Recovery Procedure

    After looking around for suitable answers to this particular question I decided to put some of the advice to the test and figure out what the procedure would be in the event my boot drive (ssd) decided to pack it in. General consensus online and on these forums state that by simply backing up...

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