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    Installation stuck at boot

    Hi guys! Today a bought a Lenovo mp93 machine with 4th generation i5, and 8 gb RAM. I want to install the newest Proxmox VE but the boot stuck at please wait.. screen. i also tried to write to usb disk with and without dd mode with rufus but nothing new. Have you any idea, what can i do?
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    Can't assign more than 16384 MB RAM to Windows 10 VM

    Hi there, I am running proxmox on a AMD EPYC 7402p with 128GB ram. Mainboard is asrock ROMED8-2t In there I have a Windows 10 Pro VM with GPU PCIE passthrough and Ethernet Card PCIE passthrough. Everything works really great and stable and I am super happy with it. But now I found a weird...
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    Fail to boot proxmox on old dell r620

    i made a fresh install on raid1(2*200 ssds) and after install stage i have the following hang screen: Loading Linux 5.4.34-1-pve ... Loading initial ramdisk ... tried to upgdate-grub and received the output : Generating grub configuration file ... /dev/sdb: open failed: No medium found...
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    FreeBSD guests are challenging

    After the prior post on FreeBSD (OPNSense and FreeNAS) failing to boot due to hotplug being enabled there remain issues. Both install just fine and boot just fine. It is only after a while they become unresponsive. I have yet to find an indication or metric to watch to understand what is going...
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    I/O errors, PVE not booting

    Hi, I had a PVE 6.2 install running for quite some time. Now, after creating a new VM, my server is acting up and I don't know why and how to fix it (even after extensive googling). When trying to boot the server, I get repeated messages of this form: EXT4-fs (dm-1): I/O error while writing...
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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] Host Unknown Filesystem, rescue mode on boot

    So I believe I'm in the same boat as this thread: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/grub-rescue-recover-data.55084/ However I am stuck at mounting the logical volume in order to recover the lvm meta data. Cause of problem; Yesterday we had several successive power cuts and at some point my APC...
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    LXC wont start on reboot

    Hi all, It's been a while since I last posted, but I'm having an issue again that I can't solve myself. The LXC containers on my host do usually do not survive a reboot, but a restore from backup can revive them until the host is rebooted again. I thought this was reproducable all the time...
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    Error booting when removing a M2.SSD

    I'm trying to remove one of two M2.SSD's from my system. When removing the secondary one, which was used for media storage, proxmox boots with no ethernet and problems with it. Does anyone have any idea as to fix this?
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    with multiple PCI devices the .conf file gets "rewritten" and the VM no longer boots

    While struggeling with PCI passthrouhg (it does work, eventually) i found something peculiar. Sometimes the VM would not boot because the PCI.id for a device was alread in use. This was because the pci-id for the vga and the audio were written as the same. So instead of 0000:17:0.0 and...
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    Unable to mount thin-provisioned LVM volume?

    Hi, I have six Proxmox hypervisors (various licenses) running 5.4 which I began upgrading this week (to 6.2-4). I'm on the second machine today and running into the same problem that I had on my first upgrade. There is an LVM volume defined from the 5.4 Proxmox install which is tagged with...
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    Hang on boot after hard reset on 6.1 and Zpool hangs on import

    Hi everyone, Proxmox and all it's VMs froze earlier today with no way to interact with the system (web interface said that a connection could not be established) so it was hard reset. There are no discernible error messages and it just stops at the end of the following (with a blinking...
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    Using dd to clone a Proxmox main/boot disk

    I want to move Proxmox Virtual Environment 5.4-13 from a hard disk to a slightly larger SSD. I tried booting into a live cd and using dd to copy the entire disk / block device to the other disk. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64M This seems to work okay. All the partitions enumerate correctly...
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    [SOLVED] ProxMox does not boot

    Hey, ProxMox ver: 6.0 Debian: 10.3 I have installed Proxmox on my server with Debian 10. I got no errors and after the reboot it did not boot into Proxmox kernel, but it booted in debian. Does anyone know a solution to that? grettings 0utplay SOLUTION: Reset the server and reinstall debian...
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    Debian 9 don't load services at boot - proxmox 5

    HI i have a strange problem, the boot worked like a charm since several month and now when I reboot the server don't load the service like apache2, cron, mysql etc... I need to enable them by hands. Could you please give me some info how I can find the problem Thanks a lot in advance! ps: if...
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    No boot entry for a compiled kernel with modified EXTRAVERSION

    I just build a kernel with a few patches and modified EXTRAVERSION(5.3.13-1-navipve). However, I'm unable to add a boot entry for this kernel I also tried to add It manually with: pve-efiboot-tool kernel add 5.3.13-1-navipve It tells me to do a refresh and even then the kernel is not listed. Any...
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    [SOLVED] PVE Fails to load past 'Loading initial ramdisk...'

    Hi all, Recently my home PVE server has been unable to boot properly, hanging at 'Loading initial ramdisk...'. I've done some searches and followed what information I've been able to find, but as a rather inexperienced linux user, I'm at an impasse. It's been about a year since I set this...
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    [SOLVED] Failure to load disk at boot (FreeBSD)

    I am trying to boot a compilation environment that we have and which was behaving quite well until we reached this problem… It simply refuses to boot ! The disk is located on an NFS v.4 mount (as all our disks). We have had no particular problem until this failure…...
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    ZFS attach on boot-drive - Is there a right way?

    Hello everybody! I had an strange situation this weekend and was wondering if there would be a "right" way to to what I did. I have an server with only one SSD as boot drive, which was installed with ZFS by the proxmox installer. This was arround 6 months ago. This weekend, I added an second...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox unexpected behavior after installation

    Hello, I reinstalled proxmox recently(because I wanted to change from raidz-2 to raid10) - previously I was using all 5 disks, but with raid10 obviously I had to use 4, so I did(but 5th drive was still connected all the time) During installation I checked "--do not use--" on 5th drive, but after...

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