First time installing, hangs on booting

[Egert143]

Hello

First time posting here and also first time trying to install Proxmox.

Unfortunately after installing Proxmox and booting it up, it seems to stop at [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk and won't load anymore. Also the ip i set in installation wizard doesent respond to ping.

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

What is the version of the ISO image that you are trying to install?

What kind of your hardware?

How did you prepare the ISO on your USB stick?

However, you still can install Proxmox VE on top of Debian Buster by following our wiki guide [0]

[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster

 

[Egert143]

Hello

Iso is latest. Hardware is old IBM BladeCenter H with similar age blades (very old hardware ) was quriouse if i could use blades for virtualisation. When i installed Proxmox on newer hardware it started working fine. So must be old hardware fault.

Egert

 

[cppmonkey]

I'm having the same issue.

Having install PVE 6.3 on a Ryzen powered system with an NVMe for the boot drive, I decided it was time it put it on a proper server.
Its a SunServer X4-2L (Dual Xeon E5-2650 v2 and 128GB DDR3)
The installation of PVE 6.4-1 seems to have go fine, with the installation being to a ZFS (RAID1) partition.

Upon reboot, the system stops progressing through the boot process but stopped before it got to the login screen. The last message reading "ses 4:0:2:0: Attached Enclosure device"
There are no errors visible on the display

The install medium was a USB drive written with Gnome Disks on a desktop running Fedora

Much like Egret143's the hardware is pretty old and the BIOS is very old (requires a support contract with Oracle to download)

I'll try PVE 6.3-1, see if that make and difference. it is the first time I've installed PVE to a ZFS partition.

 

[cppmonkey]

With PVE 6.3-1 there is an error message

Command: /sbin/zpool import -n    'rpool'
Message: cannot import 'rpool': no such pool availiable
Error: 1

Failed to import pool 'rpool'
Manually import the pool and exit.

The the boot process ejects you into BusyBox

 

[cppmonkey]

Found the answer in the wiki

when presented with the grub options, press e and add rootdelay=10 to the end of the command
And don't forget to alter the grub default and run update-grub. Otherwise it'll halt during your next boot

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/ZFS:_Tips_and_Tricks#Boot_fails_and_goes_into_busybox

Now have the L1TF CPU bug warning, because I have SMT enabled and the BIOS is from Jan 2014