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    How to switch from legacy to EFI boot

    So my setup is I installed a version prior to Proxmox VE 6.4 on my server and recently updated everything to VE 7.1. Since the installation was done in legacy mode I switched to the "Proxmox Boot Tool" which was recommended because of problems with GRUB and ZFS. So I used this tutorial...
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    Proxmox 7.0 Upgrade - Legacy Boot Tool

    Wir möchten gerne unseren Proxmox Server von Version 6.4 auf 7.0 (oder auch 7.1) upgraden. Da unser Server nicht mit UEFI installiert wurde habe ich gelesen das ich zu dem "Proxmox Legacy Boot" switchen soll, da GRUB Probleme hat wenn ZFS auf der Root Partition läuft. Dafür sollen die vfat...
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    Windows 11 VM: USB Boot funktioniert nicht

    Hallo zusammen, Ich betreibe Proxmox in der aktuellen Version mit u.a. einer Windows 11 VM. Der im Host eingesteckte bootfähige USB-Stick wird erkannt und richtig in die VM durchgereicht. Der Stick bootet in eine physischen PC einwandfrei, in der VM jedoch nicht, weil er im Bootvorgang nicht...
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    [SOLVED] template creation with Packer: boot options menu appears on some cluster and not other

    Hello, We are in the process of installing and configuring 4 clusters of 3 nodes and automating templates creation using Packer. We have a strange behaviour where for some clusters Packer template creation works fine and for others we are faced with a bug during the boot process. First, some...
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    GRUB shows for a split second when installing proxmox

    Hi. I don´t know if this is a dumb question but i am trying to install proxmox on an old laptop with broken screen. I am installing from USB and would like to disable the built in display in grub boot menu as the screen is extended and i can only see the blank extended part on my second...
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    Guest bootloader issues

    Hi, I'm pretty new to proxmox, we set up proxmox server for testing and as we were using xen hypervisor before, we are trying to migrate our VMs we can copy all the data using rsync (the xen hypervisor had partition images rather than disk images) and everything seems working fine I boot LiveCD...
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    Kein Boot mit Fehlermeldung snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: no codecs found!

    Hallo, seit einiger Kernelversionen startet Proxmox nicht mehr und bleibt mit der Meldung: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: no codecs found! stehen. Nur ein Boot im Recovery-Modus ist dann noch möglich. Früher lief Proxmox auf der selben Kiste ohne Probleme: Version: pve-manager/6.4-13/9f411e79...
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    Configure bootloader on ZFS root file system after disk replacement

    Dear proxmox community, I have proxmox (pve-manager/6.4-6/be2fa32c (running kernel: 5.13.0-19-generic)) installed on a ZFS root file system that is mirrored across two SSDs (sda and sdb). Recently, I had to successively replace both SSDs due to disk failure in the process of which I think I lost...
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    no networking after reboot

    Hi guys, I'm facing a strange issue after a simple reboot. The network is not coming up properly. systemctl status networking shows: root@pve:~# systemctl status networking * networking.service - Network initialization Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled...
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    Does Proxmox support LXC dir backend ?

    Hi, With LXC, I can have : Host : /data/vm/rootfs And the LXC VM boot on /data/vm/rootfs, which is a simple directory on the host. How to do the same thing under Promox ? I can create a raw file to become the rootfs then add with : pct set <id> -mp0 /data/vm/rootfs/home,mp=/home,backup=0 But...
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    Hangs during boot at "Failed to start Import ZFS pool zfu" help!

    Hi, I can't seem to boot after creating a zfs pool of 5 drives after rebooting for the first time. I remembered adding the pool at /zfs as a directory (to add CT images and ISOs and all) but it's basically empty. Don't mind destroying and recreating the pool if it means I can reboot and not...
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    No zvol device link found after 300 sec found issue.

    I've just vzdump and restore the VMs and change the storage to ZFS, after that, I 've tried to boot VM, but found I have these issues sometimes on some VM: IO wait / resource usage is normal. pveversion: root@cn-hk1:~# pveversion -v proxmox-ve: 7.0-2 (running kernel: 5.13.5-1-edge)...
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    LVM drives do not get activated at boot and require to be manually activated.

    Hello, For reference I believe this started after upgrading to 7 (I also replaced my PSU at the time but not sure if that would cause the issue) but before I upgraded, it took a few minutes for my 2 HDDs to activate on boot. Now I have to manually deactivate using lvchange -an HDD-#/HDD-#_tmeta...
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    When disabling CSM (Compatibility Support Module) Proxmox won't boot

    Hi guys, Nowadays I usually boot with CSM (Compatibility Support Module) on via Legacy mode. However I would like to boot using UEFI mode so when I turn of CSM and boot it will throw me into initramfs and throw me an error. The error is "Cannot import 'rpool' unsupported version or feature"...
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    Boot up VM from remote client?

    Hello everyone, I couldn't find an answer to this problem. Let's say I have several OS VMs like Win, MacOS, Linux Desktops. To save power consumption and resources it would be a cool feature to boot up a VM when a thin client boots up itself. Can I trigger a boot command in an easy way? Thanks...
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    [SOLVED] Kernel 5.4.98-1 & Kernel 5.4.124-1 fail to boot

    Hi Having updated through the GUI one of my cluster servers now fails to boot, stuck at this prompt. "Found vol group 'pve' using meta data lvm2". Does not progress from this prompt, I have left it for over an hour. Haven't tried the other server. Regressing to 5.4.78-2 works. I have...
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    Contributors wanted / PBS as an alternative to Clonezilla

    I'm going to switch to PBS as an alternative to Clonezilla when storing images. The system is complete (but not finished) and is working fine, even I've to do some tasks by console which is totally fine for me. The setup consists of a Debian Live system (Debian Live Manual) and a handful of...
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    ZFS-Encryption ohne manuelle Passworteingabe

    Hi, als Proxmox und ZFS-Einsteiger stehe ich noch vor einem Thema, bei dem ich mich nicht entscheiden kann: Soll ich meine ZFS-Pools verschlüsseln oder mache ich es mir damit unnötig kompliziert? :confused: Ich möchte den Server definitiv ohne Benutzerinteraktion und ohne Abhängigkeit zu einem...
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    Proxmox no longer UEFI booting, UEFI says "Drive not present"

    Topic title pretty much sums it up I have two NVMe (wd/hgst sn200) drives in a zfs mirror and the server no longer boots correctly after a pve-efiboot-tool refresh. If I select either UEFI OS or Linux Boot Manager it just goes back into the uefi setup screen without booting. However, if I go...
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    Proxmox: mehrfach redundante (boot) EFI Partitionen

    Hallo Community, wir hatten die letzten 5 Jahre unsere produktive Infrastruktur mit SmartOS (einem Illumos Kernel basierten Hypervisor) https://www.smartos.org/ betrieben und sind jetzt zu Proxmox gewechselt. Proxmox begeistert uns. Jedoch ist uns ein suboptimales Partitionierungsschema des...

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