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    [SOLVED] Stuck at grub on boot

    So, I decided to install proxmox on a new machine, since the old one was getting old. Downloaded the 7.0 ISO, put it on a USB with Rufus, but when I boot I end up at "grub rescue". Have I done anything wrong? EDIT: Do I have to install it ontop of another OS, or can I install it on a bare...
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    [SOLVED] Upgrade Issues (4to5)

    Hi, Proxmox4 (installed on remote server on top of Debian Jessie) was serving well till upgrade in virtual machines started popping out errors making the lxc containers failing to boot. No zfs and ceph and hosting only lxc containers. So I decided to upgrade first to Proxmox5...
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    [SoYouStart] rEFInd/Grub Boot Error (Upgrading Proxmox 6 to 7)

    Hey there, Am going through the update process from Proxmox 6 to 7 on a SoYouStart box. When I wrapped up the install (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0) and rebooted the machine, I was greeted with the following error within IPMI: Fortunately, I was able to boot into the...
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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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    LVM caching of pve/root volume cause grub to fail on Proxmox 6.4

    Tried to enable LVM caching of pve/root successfully. I know that is strange desicion for server. But this is home server with uncritical data. But then I try to run update-grub and get multiple errors about pve/root partition: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: disk...
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    What now? - Please avoid using zpool upgrade on the "rpool" (root pool) itself, when upgrading to ZFS 2.0

    In the Proxmox VE 6.4 release notes known issues section it says: Please avoid using zpool upgrade on the "rpool" (root pool) itself, when upgrading to ZFS 2.0 on a system booted by GRUB in legacy mode, as that will break pool import by GRUB. ZFS 2.0.4 is also available in 6.3-6 which I'm...
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    [SOLVED] suddenly, grub fails to boot PBS

    Today, I started my Proxmox Backup server, and grub fails to boot. The server is a repurposed old machine with two 4TB HDD with ZFS RAID 1. This kind of failure happened to me in the past with PVE, when I was trying to have ZFS disks connected to a Dell PERC controller (an unhealthy idea that...
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    VM Boot lvmid issue. Grub rescue

    Hello, I want to move several VMs from a Proxmox 5.4-15 server to a Proxmox 6.3-3 server. Procedure : - VM stopped - created a backup of VM - copied backup to Proxmox 6.3-3 server to /var/lib/vz/dump - created the VM on the new Proxmox 6.3-3 serverxmox 6.3-3 server with qmrestore - When trying...
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    [SOLVED] Grub + dnodesize = auto => grub rescue, unknown filesystem

    Hello, I have a proxmox (v5.4 I think) machine installed on ZFS, including the root filesystem. Then, quoting proxmox wiki, it should have been installed with systemd-boot instead of grub2. The thing is that the machine has grub2 (don't know why, I have inherited it like that) and after...
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    [SOLVED] Black screen after GRUB during install

    I'm attempting to resurrect an old PC and dip my toes into the Proxmox waters. I've run into a snag at the very beginning of this and have tried several solutions to no avail. The issue: Immediately after the 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' message the screen goes black and nothing happens. The...
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    6.3.1 on Dell R710 not booting: grub lvmid not found

    I like to think I'm pretty handy with Linux, but this issue has me at the end of my wits. I'm trying to install Proxmox VE 6.3.1 on a Dell R710. The installation process appears to work as expected, but when I reboot, grub panics with the following error: error: disk...
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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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    Proxmox 6-2-6 stuck during update / help request or any suggestions?

    Hi, I have a small weird problem, wondering if anyone has seen this. Proxmox 6.x host running on a stock template install on OVH environment (SW raid 2x2tb config which OVH provide and I've used many times before without issue). Normally when I do updates on such an environment, I do apt-get...
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    Proxmox host and client: backup and restore steps

    Hi! I also read this before I post. I still new with Proxmox but I like it! :) I have a latest Proxmox server using only 1 physical (home) server with Linux software raid, mostly for: samba: file sharing: movies, music (for raspberry pi music players) and for windows notebooks for movies...
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    Cloning PVE 6.1-2 From One Disk to Another

    New to Linux so forgive my ignorance about anything. Hoping to switch off of HyperV. I setup a single 120GB SSD non-UEFI computer with the storage defaults (Not ZFS). I customized a great many things and then used a HDD duplicator to clone to a 250GB destination disk. To my surprise the cloned...
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    [SOLVED] Booting to grub prompt after updates.

    I am running version 6.1-7 on a 2+1 node setup. After I ran updates on both nodes, it gave me a message that a new kernel was installed so I rebooted one server after migrating the active VMs to the other. I waited a little over 10 minutes for the server to come back up and nothing. I...
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    [SOLVED] PROXMOX INSTALL | error: unknown filesystem.

    Guten Abend, Ich habe mir am Gestrigen Morgen drei mal einen ProxMox install USB-Stick erstellt. Doch bei jedem mal, wenn ich in den installer booten möchte, werde ich in den GRUB RESCUE-Mode versetzt und mir folgendes angezeigt : 00...
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    GRUB errors & HP Servers

    I have recently installed PVE 6 on a HP proliant DL360e Gen8, 2 Drives with a ZFS pool. Multiple reboots worked fine and the server would restart correctly then I upgraded it to 6.1 after the upgrade the server would not boot - the error " error: no such device: (hex) error: unknown...
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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...