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    How can I make all disks in my rpool bootable?

    Currently my `rpool` consists of 1x SATA SSD, and 2x NVMe SSDs. I'd like to remove the SATA disk but neither of the NVMe disks are bootable, either when changing settings in the BIOS of my ASRock X470D4U, or when manually selecting the NVMe disks from the F11 boot menu. Neither of the NVMe...
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    [SOLVED] Move boot partition ZFS USB

    Hello, What i am trying to achieve is this: I have a hp raid card (p420i) that does not allow booting from itself while in HBA mode, therefore i decided, i could try to move the boot partition to a usb drive and have all the drives directly in proxmox with zfs. However i am not sure if i am...
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    FreeBSD 9 can't boot - stuck on kbd1 at kbdmux0

    Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 9.1 on PVE 7.4.16. I try with installation cd, restoring working 9.1 installation using Clonezilla (disk to disk) every time same error - stuck on kbd1 at kbdmux0. Default settings - CPU 2x2, numa enabled, BIOS Default SEABios, VirtIO SCSI single. Try to...
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    Proxmox(Debian) freeze installation

    Hello, i wanted to install Proxmox but after installation and/or when i use the keys up und down in the installation menu it hangs completely. I succesfully installed it once, but after a few minutes i only see the login screen and at the serial console it hangs. For fun i tried to install...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox uses GRUB instead of UEFI bootloader on UEFI compatible system

    Greetings! As far as I know disabling CSM should lead to installation in UEFI mode, yet I am still seeing GRUB during boot. What's weird, that efibootmgr -v reports that Proxmox were booted in UEFI mode. root@atlantis:~# efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: 000C Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: 000C,0001...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox Hangs on Pre-Installation Boot Screen when Installing on Debian Bookworm (Proxmox 8.0)

    Hello all, I have an issue with installing a fresh instance of Proxmox 8 (latest as of October 25). I am able to install plain Debian or Ubuntu without any issues, but unable to complete installation of Proxmox 8 on top of Debian. I am following the instructions from the official Proxmox wiki...
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    Install Proxmox from Grub

    Hello all, This is my first thread I discovered proxmox, I'd like to take the plunge and discover the world of homelab with it. I'm trying to install it on a 2016 Mac that has an Ubuntu OS. I made a Proxmox bootable key, but I have trouble booting on it. When I start my computer with the...
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    No Bootable Device nach Neustart des Hosts

    Hallo, wir sind heute umgezogen, also hab ich mein Proxmox Host ordentlich heruntergefahren und am neuen Standort wieder hochgefahren. Alles hat erstaunlicherweise ohne Probleme funktioniert. Nur eine Linux Maschine (SLES11) meint auf einmal das es kein bootable Device mehr hat. Hab die VM...
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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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    Ubuntu Pi-Hole VM stuck on boot after host reboot

    Hi, I stopped my proxmox running pfsense and pihole to add some ram and after the reboot the machine pihole running on Ubuntu will not start. I did have some trouble with this VM because it would also not shut down so i force shut the host. (pfsense shut down just fine, only pihole had this...
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    Proxmox doesn't boot

    Hi, some months ago I set up my own Proxmox server at home on a PC and everything worked for weeks. But recently I haven't used the server a lot so some days ago I again wanted to start the server but I wasn't able to access it from the browser. Then I checked my home network and i realized...
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    Convert Ubuntu VM from SeaBIOS to OVMF

    I have an active Ubuntu server 22 VM that I want to pass through a GPU (p2000) for hardware acceleration. Now when I set up this VM a long time ago I used the default machine (i440fx) and boot type (SeaBIOS), but the docs don't recommend those options for passthrough. The machine type was...
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    Recommended OS/Config Backup Strategies

    What are some strategies that people use to backup/clone/automate/etc OS disks and configurations? I've read a number of threads on this topic - varying from clonezilla backups, automated config managers, zfs send cron jobs and many more. Many are outdated and I am curious if there are more...
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    Cannot boot 6.2.x kernel - black screen

    Hello, I have a problem updating to the 6.2.x kernel. I just updated to proxmox 8 following the instructions below: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list My problem is that I can boot the older kernel 5.15.x without any problems, but when I try to boot into the newer 6.2.x kernel I only...
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    [SOLVED] Unable to boot after trying to setup PCIe passthrough - PVE 8.0-2

    NOTE: Quick fix use package "driverctl", not the same as early binding but pretty close. Thanks @leesteken Hello everyone I have been beefing up my storage, so the configuration works properly on PVE 7.x, but it doesn't work on PVE 8.0-2 (I'm using proxmox-ve_8.0-2.iso) My original HW config...
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    Bootable disks replacement and ZFS on Proxmox 6.1-8

    Hello! I need help. Proxmox 6.1-8 It was installed on pool of 4 HDD, and two of them contains boot and efi partitions. I need to replace all 4, they are too old and unreliable. One of this disks is already faulted, I've detached it (zpool detach /dev/disk-by-id/disk_id and then physically), and...
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    Netapp HBA support

    Hi, I'm running a single Proxmox server. It's a HP 380 Gen 9 with the latest BIOS. Now I got my hands on a NetApp shelf, with HBA and QSFP cables to hook it up. HOWEVER. Whenever I try to boot the server with the HBA installed, it goes no further then "initialising RAMdisk" The Server does go...
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    [CRITICAL] | Installation Issue: Flashing Screen after First Step

    Hello, So i tried to install Proxmox nativly. After it entered the Proxmox installation Screen i had the option to select Proxmox VE and Advanced options. I selected Proxmox VE. The the Bad things started to happen. First it drew an purple line across the screen, then as the time went by the...
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    Fresh install VE 7.4 - Network not initialized on boot

    Hi, I'm running a small testsystem on a NUC from ASRock with Celeron Elkhardt J6412 and with two Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 ethernet interfaces. The system takes about two minutes to boot and leaves the ethernet interfaces offline and needs local shell access and running systemctl start...
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    [SOLVED] Cannot install PVE as UEFI OS

    While reinstalling PVE, I was able to install it as an UEFI OS on a Transcend SSD but not on my Kingston SSD SV300S37A120G. I'm able to differentiate because the BIOS selections will prefix with UEFI OS. Also checked that Windows 10 had no issues installing itself on Kingston as an UEFI OS...

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