I am trying to make use of an old server. It is a i7-3770k with 32 gb of ram. It has a Perc 5i raid controller and 6 drives. Three 148 GB and three 1 TB. I created a RAID 5 with the three 148 GB drives and then installed Proxmox VE from a USB drive onto it. All went well and I was able to log into the GUI. Then, I ran the update/upgrade and did a reboot. Now it wont boot. It keeps freezing at "Welcome to GRUB". I did a few reboots and a couple times it got past the Welcome to GRUB screen but then hangs at loading RAM disk. I'm not very familiar with the hardware controller and assume that might be my issue. Is there any trick to get this to boot?
boot failure on new install of Proxmox VE
- Thread starter pharpe
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I found the issue. Bad drive. I guess it died right after the install on the next rebook. Odd that I got no notification for the Perc card of the failure. I found it because I could hear the tell tail clicky click sound when I opened the case. I pulled the bad drive and recreated the disk as a raid 1. I was able to reinstall and every was working but very slow. I ended up pulling the PERC card and all the old drives. I put in a new SDD connected the the onboard SATA and starting over again. Night and day difference.
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