Debugging installation wiki page

[lifeboy]

Page at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation applies.

Proxmox 4.4 does not give a boot prompt the way 3.x did. So if one wants to set other values for partitions that must be created (as listed in the wiki page), it is not clear how.

In the GUI when selecting the hard disk to install to, the options can be set, provided that ext3 / ext4 is selected, but when ZFS Raid1 (for example) is chosen, these options are not available any more.

How does one set these in the 4.4 installation? I want to install to 2 small 8GB drives that should be RAID1'd.

Also, can someone with editing rights please update the wiki page to reflect the current version of Proxmox?

 

[dietmar]

How does one set these in the 4.4 installation? I want to install to 2 small 8GB drives that should be RAID1'd.

We do not support that. You need to use whole disks for ZFS.

 

[lifeboy]

Ok, thanks. Note taken.

Is there then any way in which I can create a RAID1 volume and install Proxmox 4.4 on it?

More specifically, I want to do software RAID1, since I don't have hardware to support this. This is for the exact reason that I would like to use low cost storage to boot the cluster (this is an experiment at this stage).

 

[dietmar]

I though i just answered that question.

 

[lifeboy]

I though i just answered that question.

Maybe I didn't express myself well enough then, sorry. I mean, can I pre-format a RAID1 volume (with ext4 for example) and let Proxmox install to that (to the whole disk)? It doesn't have to be ZFS, it could be anything that is supported.

It seems it would be better to install debian with the raid I want and then install Proxmox onto that, if the above is not an option.

Lastly, does it have to be debian 8, or could I use a different distro if I choose to install Proxmox from the repo, rather than from the installation ISO? (I would really, really like to avoid systemd if I could ...)

 

[fabian]

Maybe I didn't express myself well enough then, sorry. I mean, can I pre-format a RAID1 volume (with ext4 for example) and let Proxmox install to that (to the whole disk)? It doesn't have to be ZFS, it could be anything that is supported.

It seems it would be better to install debian with the raid I want and then install Proxmox onto that, if the above is not an option.

Lastly, does it have to be debian 8, or could I use a different distro if I choose to install Proxmox from the repo, rather than from the installation ISO? (I would really, really like to avoid systemd if I could ...)

we don't support mdraid, and PVE requires systemd since PVE 4, and is Debian-based in general (Wheezy/7 for PVE 3, Jessie/8 for PVE 4, Stretch/9 for the upcoming PVE 5)