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    [SOLVED] Proxmox 6 EFI Boot ZFS Rpool Race to Import Fail

    Hey all, Running into some problems getting the system to work properly now that release is out and I want to make a ZFS Mirror instead of just a single drive. For clarity, the system showed no issue booting using ext4 or xfs on NVME or SATA SSDs (if used by themselves) but now that I'm...
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    Proxmox USB/SD Card Boot Recommendations?

    In my home lab, I have 2 Intel NUCs (both only allow 1 * SSD and 1 * NVMe) and I’m currently booting them (UEFI) from the internal SSD. The 2 NUCs are setup in a cluster with an external qdevice for corosync quorum votes. I would like to use these internal SSDs as VM storage to maximise...
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    [SOLVED] PVE Kernel do not boot

    Hello together, I have some strange issue with PVE 5.3 and 5.4. I can install Proxmox without any issue. But the PVE Kernel will not boot. After GRUB Loader I can see "normal" boot messages and after that (the moment where normally the prompt appears) the screen stays black and nothing...
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    Boot Ausgaben auf dem falschen Monitor

    Hallo, ich habe ein Proxmox frisch installiert (EFI-boot, Debian9 mit Upgrade zu Proxmox). In dem Server sind 2 Grafikkarten installiert: - OnBoard (BMC/IPMI): ASPEED AST2400 - PCIe: Nvidia GTX 970 Wenn der Server jetzt startet, werden nach der Auswahl in Grub die Boot-Ausgaben & die Konsole...
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    [TUTORIAL] SuperMicro H8SGL-F / Matrox G200 Proxmox Boot Problems Fix

    I recently tried to install Proxmox VE 5.3 on an older SuperMicro Node: SuperMicro H8SGL-F Motherboard with integrated Matrox G200E Graphics AMD Opteron 6348 128GB DDR3 ECC Ram The Problem: Proxmox wouldn't boot, neither the installer nor a finished install from another node (Blackscreen...
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    [SOLVED] NVidia on VM's crash

    Hello everyone, Today i'm co-fronting a issue, i have followed the tutorial like step by step but i can use my Nvidia Geforce on the VM with x-vga i don't know why my configs, vm103.conf dmesg | grep ecap to be sure than remaping is supported/or not supported my...
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    OVH SYS servers now using UEFI ~ ESP sync?

    Recent OVH SYS servers are now configured to use UEFI, and their Proxmox 5 (ZFS) installer template manages the post-install setup so Proxmox can boot. The EFI system partition doesn't appear to be synced across multiple disks, and it's unclear how this will deal with a kernel update. Asking...
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    [TUTORIAL] Troubleshooting faulty zfs.config

    I've made a mistake today. I was trying to modify l2arc_write_max and l2arc_write_boost. What i did was: CAREFUL THIS IS WRONG options zfs l2arc_write_max 67108864 options zfs l2arc_write_boost 134217728 it should be options zfs l2arc_write_max=67108864 options zfs...
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    Boot physical disk within Proxmox?

    Hi, I have a running Proxmox server running some VM images with GPU passthru for some time. I have a desire to access an old linux installation from my old desk top pc running Centos5. I have now installed the hard disk into my server and was able to add the disk to an existing ubuntu VM in...
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    [SOLVED] VM One-Time-Boot

    Hallo, we want to install some VM's automatically. For this we have created a shell script which use the qm create command to create the VM. qm create $ID -name $NAME -bootdisk scsi0 -scsi0 NVME:$DISK1SIZE -scsihw virtio-scsi-pci -scsi1 HDD:$DISK2SIZE -memory 8192 -ostype l26 -sockets $SOCKETS...
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    Restarting Windows VM causes boot loop

    Hi, I am using Proxmox VE 5.2-1 and installed a Windows Server 2016 VM. Everything works fine except restarting the VM i.e. after a Windows update. If the VM is restartet it keeps rebooting at the very beginning of the boot proces - just after finding the harddisk. The same happens if I select...
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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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    "Missing device in multi-device" boot error zfs raidz-1

    Hello, I have a Proliant DL380 G7 with dual CPU (x5690) and HP P410i smart raid controller. The controller does not support HBA / JBOD so I initialized the disks all as a single volume. I have the following drives available: - 1 SSD 120 GB for ZFS caching - 3 78 GB 15K SAS drives planned for...
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    [SOLVED] kernel 4.15.10-5 won't boot

    After doing an `apt update` and then an `apt upgrade` my proxmox server no longer boots. Old kernel (which i can manually select and boot from) is 4.15.10-1. There is no subscription, so the updates were from pve-nosubscription. The hardware is a HP DL380p G8. This is easily reproducable for...
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    On boot container don't start apache and mysql

    Hi all, I just upgrade my container from debian 8 to debian 9 and now when I restart the container with the button "shutdown" and after "start" from the proxmox interface the container start but the apache and mysql service need to be start by command line. root@host4-vm106:~# cat...
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    [SOLVED] Cannot boot (anymore) VM from USB via BootMenu after upgrade to PVE 5.2-9

    Hello, I have a "specific" setup on my proxmox machine. There are 16 SCSI disks passed through to VM machine as VIRTIO-SCSII devices, there is also a pendrive passed through, and this VM runs unRaid system. As there is no possibility to automatically boot from passed through USB (AFAIK) i...
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    30+ min boot time

    We have some server that display some really long boot time. We are talking about 30min to 45min each. At first I though it was related to the server POST but the image here show the server finished his POST correctly and gave control to the OS. This is where they hang for 30+ min. We have...
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    [SOLVED] Boot hangs, but rescue mode runs the node perfectly.

    How can I fix the boot / startup process on pmx4.4 when I can start a node perfectly using "rescue mode" from the iso, but trying to boot directly only gives me a black screen with a blinking cursor? Nothing is logged during that failed boot.
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    Issues with dual GPU passthrough

    Hi there! I'm attempting to configure dual GPU passhtrough to two guest Win10 VMs. I managed to pass the first GPU to a Win10 guest just fine (GTX 750Ti). I then decided to add the second GPU (GTX980), so I included its IDs to "/etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf" and rebooted the server as per the...
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    [SOLVED] Migrated KVM Virtual Disk fails to boot with UEFI

    Hello! I have migrated / copied over a virtual disk (qcow2) created with Virsh. This disk has 2 partitions and uses UEFI. When I start a VM in Proxmox using this virtual disk, the SeaBIOS is loaded and fails to boot UEFI. How can I fix this? THX