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    Unable to install grub on Intel S5520HC / efi related?

    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...
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    proxmox 7.0 (failed to prepare EFI)

    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...
  3. mattlach

    Migrate Host ZFS Boot "rpool" from MBR to UEFI booting?

    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...
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    [SOLVED] Issue installing Proxmox 7 on Dell R720 in UEFI mode.

    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...
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    Efi error during installation

    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...
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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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    Change from UEFI to Legacy Bios?

    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...
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    Unable to install Proxmox VE 6.1 on zbox ci329nano

    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...
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    [SOLVED] FreeBSD installer freeze

    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...
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    PROXMOX - VM EFI MODE

    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
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    Changing selected kernel for boot (systemd-boot) on headless PVE Host?

    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...
  12. Toxik

    Question about root disk failure

    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...
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    PCIe passthrough fails and drop into EFI shell

    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...
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    Step by Step Install w EFI, ZFS, SSD cache, File Server

    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...
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    PVE 4.2 install fails at Boot with non-UEFI Board

    Hi, Hence this is my first post here, and i did not want to place a dumb question, without doing enough research and testing before asking, it's a little bit detailed. I want to upgrade my PVE v3.4 to 4.x on my HP Microserver N40L. The Problem: The Screen just goes dark when it should start...