[SOLVED] Debian Virtual disk unreadable after first boot

TheYolocast

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Hello all.

I am not new to virtualization, but I am new to proxmox. I am trying to build my first homelab on a Dell Poweredge r710. So far, I have a pfSense gateway router installed and working normally.

Here's the issue:

When I tried to create a Debian VM, it took a really long time to install from ISO. When it finally booted up, it tried to start Gnome and gave me a blinking underscore. After a few minutes of this, I told the VM to shut down, and it did so cleanly. When I tried to bring it back up, however, it told me that it couldn't read the disk for boot anymore. So I tried to install again and had the same issue.

Later after a fresh install, I shut it down at the Grub screen before it was able to boot into Debian (So I could take a snapshot), but I found that the issue still occurred when I brought it back up for its first boot, meaning whatever change to the disk that is causing it to become unbootable is happening during or before Grub.

Hardware Config:
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Options are default.

Note: I had to set the display to VMWare compatible to get the graphical install to work.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
Jacob S.
 
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Update: I had not set an EFI drive. My bad. I didn't realize what that did exactly. Now I just have to solve the Gnome issue.
 

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