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I have a Proxmox (currently running version 8.3) server, that was installed on ZFS RAID1 a few years ago, booting Legacy BIOS mode. There is a 512MB EFI partition present on the boot drives, but when I switch the BIOS to EFI boot mode. nothing happens beside the EFI shell starting. Searching...

So I have this weird behavior after installing Proxmox 8.3.0 in two ThinkCentre M910Q's that are equipped with a 4TB SSD each. The machines came with a Windows pre installed which seemed to be working fine. I booted into the install ISO and installed Proxmox 8.3.0 (latest ISO download as per...

Hello everyone, I've been noticing that sometimes, my Windows VM's with an EFI boot on Proxmox sometimes fail to fully boot/load. When that happens, they always get stuck on this exact same screen: This happens on different Proxmox nodes (not clustered) with different versions of Windows...

Hi. I've just updated my Proxmox backup server via the gui and I got an issue in the end. I haven't restarted yet, since this reminds me on my pve server that didn't come up again after a regular update. So the question is: What do I have to do to fix this? Here's the output of my console...

I have a single node install with PVE 8.2.4 and ZFS Mirror as boot drive. I was doing apt update and was suggested to do a apt --fix-broken install. I ran that and got this: root@pve:~# apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state...

I'm finding various discussions of this same issue, but am afraid of blindly following "fixes" without fully understanding the issue. I did find this wiki article: ZFS: Switch Legacy-Boot to Proxmox Boot Tool When I updated my kernel, I saw the following error messages: Re-executing...

I added another SATA SSD drive to my host and extended my one ZFS storage pool it worked great but after rebooting my host I get stuck at EFI stub: loaded initrd from linux_efi_initrd_media_GUID device path. I've created a bootable USB drive with the Proxmox 8 ISO image on it and can boot from...

So after a couple additional days of troubleshooting i think i am finally quite close to getting it fully working and as soon as thats the case i am planing to write a full guide for all people that want to do a similar setup in the future since i couldnt find any real guides for proxmox /...

Hey there, I've got a few questions / issues regarding a nvme ssd passed through in a VM. The server has 2 nvmes - one as LVM storage for VM disks, another (Seagate BarraCuda Q5 ZP10000CV30001) passed in a VM. The VM is Windows 11, installed directly onto that nvme as ovmf Q35 ***without*** an...

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...

Hey all! I'm looking at trying out Proxmox on an old T420 Thinkpad laptop I have lying around. I created a bootable USB of the latest version (7.3-1) of Proxmox and filled out the installation wizard. I ended up getting to the end, at 99% complete, and am greeted with this message: >...

I have been running 5.15.74-1-pve just fine, and am able to boot this kernel release without any problems. 5.15.83-1-pve will hang and require a power cycle to get back into the boot prompt to select another kernel. I have already tried 'update-initramfs -k all -u' and 'pve-efiboot-tool...

I can't upgrade https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Recover_From_Grub_Failure this wiki entry so I will add this update for anyone who needs it with EFI. After changing out a GPU in my computer I came across this grub rescue screen. error: disk `lvmid/[LVMID]' not found. grub rescue > I needed to...

I created a new virtual machine on proxmox using OMVF for UEFI support for my Arch Linux install, after finishing setup I shutdown the VM, detached the CD/ROM drive, and used "qm set <VMID> -efidisk0 /dev/disk/by-id/<DISKID-PART#-OFEFI>,efitype=4m,format=raw" followed by "qm set <VMID> -scsi0...

Hello, I had a severe issue with OS disk (using BTRFS) and must replace it. This means I started block copy using dd from old disk to new SSD; I performed the following steps: 1. block copy with dd from old to new device 2. extend root partition 3. resize BTRFS of relevant partition Then I...

Hey folks, Trying to install some debian UEFI guests (Ubuntu 22.04 & Debian 11.5 with the same results), and I'm having issues with the installer failing at EFI install step: VM Info: ``` root@pve02:~# cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/101.conf acpi: 0 agent: 1 bios: ovmf boot: order=ide2;net0...

I've got a VM which keeps resetting efivars on cold boot, resulting in it trying to boot from CD->PXE->HTTP and then finally HDD, It does have an EFI disk, which I've tried recreating across a couple different storage pools to no effect. Each time i recreate it, I add a boot entry, change the...

I need some help replacing a couple of smaller drives with another couple of bigger ones, while maintaining the same ZFS filesystem but enlarging the pool and also switching to EFI boot. This is on PVE 6.4 in preparation for upgrading to 7. This is what /dev/sda and /dev/sdb look like right...

Hello, I'm migrating my homelab from ESXi 6.7 to Proxmox 7 using the ofvtool. I didn't have any issues with bios based VMs, but I hade some appliances deployed that has efi bios by default and I'm getting this error from ovftool when i launch the copy: - Line -1: Unsupported value 'firmware'...

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...