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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...

hello all, as the title suggests, I am unable to install grub on my server. The installation went fine until the point of installing grub. But the installation seems to be intact and I am able to boot via "Rescue Boot" from an installation media. I can create VM's etc all fine. But if I try to...

Hi Everyone I m trying to install proxmox in my DELL Poweredge R720 i have the dell perc H710p mini installed so i have a raid 0 on 2 intel ssd's and although i managed to installed it the first time without any errors i broke up the raid to install it directly on my drives but that did not...

Hey all, I run a standalone Proxmox server which I have been upgrading in place for years. I am currently on 6.x, not having upgraded to 7 yet. It was a clean install on Proxmox 4.2 I believe. When i initially installed it, I set it up to boot from a ZFS mirror of two SATA SSD's using...

I am having issues with installing Proxmox 7 on one of my DELL R720. The installation goes fine until it is setting up the bootload and then I get and error on the console: Searching for this issue give lots of results for arch linux but not during the install phase. Not sure how to proceed...

Hi, I’m new here. I‘d like to create a little server from pro and dell wyse Z90d7. I have Eli error during the end of installation: “cannot install efi to dev/sda2. I’ll try version 5, 6 and 7. Always the same issue. When I use rescue installer finds the proxmo, and I can login to server. I...

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...

hi fellow Proxmoxers, It seems my old DELL server will not work with a GPU passthrough in UEFI mode. I have successfully configured the passthrough in Legacy Bios (on the host) but on a new Proxmox install on the same machine with UEFI I cant get it to work. In fact the host sometimes freezes...

Currently I am trying to install PVE on my ZBOX, but it always fails on the last step, configuring GRUB with failed to prepare EFI boot using Grub on /dev/sda2: unable to install the EFI boot loader on /dev/sda The console on (ctrl+alt+f2) does not show more informations about that error Any...

Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on PVE using a passed-through nVidia GPU. When I pass a KVM-modified rom file, or no rom file at all - the GPU brings the screen up but the installer freezes on EFI framebuffer information (see the attached picture). When I pass an unmodified rom - the GPU...

Hi all, i have installed a Proxmox server VE 5.4-3. I must to start a virtual machine (Centos based) in EFI mode. Could anyone help me please? Thanks

Hi There, I currently have a 2-node PVE 6 cluster (and 3rd node QDevice), with the 2 nodes operating headless with PVE installed as ZFS on EFI (systemd-boot). If I want to test the new PVE Linux 5.3 kernel on one of the nodes, I understand that I just need to do: apt update && apt install...

Hi, I've got a Proxmox installed on a ZFS RAID1. I've also noticed that the two root disks have 3 partitions: "BIOS boot", "EFI system" and "ZFS". I wonder what happens, when one of the root disks fails. For ZFS it should not be a problem, but what about booting the system? Are the first 2...

Hi everyone! I hope you can help me with a problem, which I cannot solve myself. Since the last Proxmox VE update, which I performed a few days ago, I cannot boot up my Windows 10 VM any more (worked flawlessly for over a year now). Instead I drop into the EFI shell and I have no keyboard...

Install Proxmox on a Dell R510 server (12 SCSI/SATA bays) with the following criteria: UEFI boot ZFS mirrored boot drives Large Drive support (> 2TB) SSD-backed caching (a Sun F20 flash accelerator with 96GB of cache on 4 chips) Home File Server There were lots of “gotchas” in the process...