4.1 install from USB stick or IPMI garbled (wrong video mode)

[Rob Freyder]

Greetings,

I'm trying to install 4.1 from USB stick on a new system based on a Supermicro XS10SDV-TLN4F with a Xeon D-1541 processor.

BIOS is version 1.0c date January 2016.

What I see upon boot is a thin band of pixels across the monitor that vaguely looks like the proxmox logo. When I press enter the screen changes but of course I can not read anything.

It seems like the video mode is getting set incorrectly .
I never see a boot: prompt just the band across the top of the console.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Rob.

UPDATE: The box has a VGA chip from ASPEED Technology which appears to use the "ast" driver. I've installed Centos 7 on it successfuly.

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

can you try to disable efi in the bios when you install it.

 

[shawly]

I had the same issue with my Supermicro X10SL7-F and UEFI boot enabled. There was no solution so I installed Debian Jessie and just added the Proxmox repos and my problem was solved.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Jessie#Install_Proxmox_VE

 

[Rob Freyder]

same thing with EFI disabled. I'll just do the Jessie install and then load proxomox.

 

[Rob Freyder]

OK.. got it installed and set up.
Took me a few tries but here is what got me.

make sure you have your host name resolving to a real ip address and not just 127.0.0.1

If not then the pve-cluster service will fail and this will cause most of the other pve packages to not install.

If that happens then fix the hosts file as shown in the wiki article and then start the cluster service.

then do a dpkg --configure -a as root to get the packages to finish installing.

 

[Rob Freyder]

Updating the BIOS to version 1.1 from 1.0c solved the Video Problem!