Error preparing initrd: Bad Buffer Size

I have just hit this issue also today on an oldish Supermicro MB, is there a v8 installer that works yet?
 
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JohnnyD said:
I have just hit this issue also today on an oldish Supermicro MB, is there a v8 installer that works yet?
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I'm not aware of any plans to release a new version of the 8.0 installer. What you can do is:
  • Installing 7.4 and upgrading
  • Debug install of 8.0 with upgrading the systemd packages and reinitializing the ESPs before reboot (see the previous few posts)
  • Wait for 8.1
 
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For what it's worth, I would add that I have experienced this issue on a Dell Poweredge T410 and I couldn't even boot the installer in debug mode. I installed 7.4 and upgraded.
 
feisal said:
I am using a Powered R820 and have the same problem. Had to install 7.4 and upgrade.
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When trying to install 7.4 and upgrade, I ran into a different issue, but was able to successfully install 8.0 by following the debug shell method outlined earlier in the thread.
Specifically:
  1. Installed proxmox with GUI in debug mode, entered the shell after installation, then ran:
  2. wget https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/proxmox-release-bookworm.gpg
  3. Added proper repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list
  4. apt update
  5. apt upgrade
  6. apt install systemd-boot
  7. proxmox-boot-tool init /dev/sda2
  8. proxmox-boot-tool init /dev/sdb2
  9. proxmox-boot-tool reinit
  10. proxmox-boot-tool refresh

and it now boots just fine!
 
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I've tried this also like @lugnut (i wanted to write the steps, then the forum told me there are new messages, lol) and it worked like a charm on my Poweredge R720xd with the Dell PERC H710P D1 Controller in IT mode.
 
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