uefi

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    UEFI: Install on 2 SSD ZFS Z1 - "unable to init esp and install proxmox-boot loader"

    Hi I am running into a weird issue while trying to install PVE 7. I have a Dell R520 with and HBA (H330, IT Mode) and 2 Samsung SSD (consumer grade) connected to it. The system was set to BIOS boot mode and I was able to install Proxmox with ZFS RaidZ1 on those two SSDs, everything worked so...
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    [SOLVED] Debian 11 UEFI Installation

    Hi everyone, I have been using Promox VE for a while now without any issues. But today i have just gone to do a new installation of Debian 11 in UEFI mode and the GUI and Non GUI installation doesn't show correctly. Proxmox VE Version: 7.0-14+1 I not sure if there something i have done wrong...
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    Advantages of UEFI install compared to BIOS/Legacy mode?

    Hi, new Proxmox user here. I've just installed PVE in Legacy mode. Now before I continue to set up the system I wondered if there are any advantages to a UEFI install? Looking though Documentation/Forums I could not find a conclusive answer. Having the troubles with UEFI in the back of my head...
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    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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    When disabling CSM (Compatibility Support Module) Proxmox won't boot

    Hi guys, Nowadays I usually boot with CSM (Compatibility Support Module) on via Legacy mode. However I would like to boot using UEFI mode so when I turn of CSM and boot it will throw me into initramfs and throw me an error. The error is "Cannot import 'rpool' unsupported version or feature"...
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    [SOLVED] PVE ZFS mirror installation without 512MByte Partition - how to convert to UEFI boot?

    Hi, I have a older installation of a 3-node Proxmox Ceph cluster - probably 5.3 or older. The OS disks look like this: So there is no 512M partition I could use for the EFI boot partition. I would like to switch to a UEFI boot, but how do I cut out that 512M UEFI partition?
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    Proxmox no longer UEFI booting, UEFI says "Drive not present"

    Topic title pretty much sums it up I have two NVMe (wd/hgst sn200) drives in a zfs mirror and the server no longer boots correctly after a pve-efiboot-tool refresh. If I select either UEFI OS or Linux Boot Manager it just goes back into the uefi setup screen without booting. However, if I go...
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    HELP: Failed to start Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM" Time out

    I'm following this guide to set up GPU passthrough: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/b5xpua/the_ultimate_beginners_guide_to_gpu_passthrough/ All was going great, I installed windows 10, and decided to remove the installer ISO device. Suddenly, I was getting weird install errors and...
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    [SOLVED] Windows UEFI Problem

    Hello, i have a little weird problem.. i have imported a Windows Server 2012R2 machine from VMWare ESXI, without any problem. the vm startup up and working on that. but since when i have migrate the machine to a another node i have a weird problem. the machine is pingable, but i can't using...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox setup not starting

    Hello! I want to install Proxmox 6.1 on a workstation and I have a problem with the starting of the setup process. I will describe onwards the hardware setup and the issue: Hardware: Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX X570-I CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5GHz RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz...
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    Proxmox Boot Issues on Dell T430 Server

    I purchased two 1TB Crucial MX500 SSDs last night (not NVMe) and put them both into a Vantec M.2 RAID card. The card is *not* configured for RAID. It's just passing both drives through to the server as individual SATA SSDs. While my server was configured to boot via BIOS, I installed Proxmox...
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    [TUTORIAL] bootable NVME install on old hardware made easy with pcie adapter and clover

    My 1TB nvme is installed into an nvme pcie adapter (these can be bought for like $10) First you simply install proxmox to the NVME, this is straight forward just like installing to a hard drive, the problem comes in to play when you try booting from the NVME, older bios do not support that...
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    replace zfs (boot) disk in uefi environment pve 6.1

    I am pretty new to proxmox but very impressed by it's possibilities. Having setup a PVE 6.1 environment (3 x 2TB sata, AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core CPU, 64GB memory) which is running some limited production as test without any problems. One of the 3 disks (sda) is giving errors so i want to...
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    Boot & VM data on same zpool or seperate?

    Hello, I'm wondering what the proxmox teams recommendations are for ZFS. I see proxmox now support UEFI boot and supposedly rpool supports all ZFS feature flags in this configuration. During installation of Proxmox the "rpool" is generated. The ROOT is there for booting. And rpool/data is...
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    [SOLVED] Making zfs root mirror bootable (uefi)

    Hi, I attached a disk for the root file system to have a mirrored zfs pool. Resilvering was no problem, but how can I make the second disk bootable? I am new to UEFI and do not know any of the relevant commands. The original device: Device Start End Sectors Size Type...
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    Cannot boot PVE 6 on a IBM server

    Hi, I installed PVE 6 with ZFS on two SSD drives on an IBM x3650 M3 server with a H200 SAS controller cross-flashed to IT mode. The installation process ended correctly but after the reboot the server does not boot, nor in UEFI mode nor in legacy mode. If the USB drive is plugged into the server...
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    OVMF boot UEFI Solaris distros?

    Ive installed a couple open solaris distributions including openindiana and omnios both installing a UEFI bootloader. But OVMF on proxmox reports after install that it is not found. Changing to SeaBIOS does boot. I tried on both PVE 6 and PVE 5.4 with the same results: no UEFI boot to any...
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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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    [PVE 6.0] Cannot set ZFS arc_min and arc_max

    Hello, Just installed fresh pve 6.0 on 2 servers, the 2 are identical : root@proxmox02:~# pveversion pve-manager/6.0-2/865bbe32 (running kernel: 5.0.15-1-pve) I installed with ZFS for root partition : root@proxmox02:~# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG...