Fresh Proxmox 3.0 install fails to boot sun x4170m2

[evilbob]

Hi everyone,
Looking for some help or advice. I have a Oracle Sun x4170 m2 server with an LSI raid card. I want to use proxmox on this beast.

When I boot the proxmox cd I get to the screen where I can enter boot paramaters If I hit enter I get a wavy white screen not good. I have found that a boot paramater of :linux noacpi edd=off" will allow me to install proxmox without any further issues.

The Bad part is after the install upon reboot I get a black screen that says
"welcome to grub" and then it just flashes the "_" character below the message. So I boot off the CD again and issue a pveboot and a Ctl D when needed. The system starts up fine I can access the web interface and make VM's I cannot boot without the CD though.

To debug a little further I modified the /etc/default/grub file and removed the "quiet" option. now when I boot I get the grub menu. when I choose proxmox from the grub menu it gets to this point.

Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: mounting /dev/ on /root/dev failed: no such file or directory

I am then dropped into a busybox shell

More info from within busybox
if I do a mount command I get this list

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,realtime)
proc on /proc type proc (same as sys)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,realtime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=9275273,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,realtime,gid=5)
dev/disk/by-uuid/deeb66*restof uuid* on /root type ext3

Looking at blkid shows that the uuid deeb66* is my sda1 or my /boot partition why is it mounting it on /root?
blkid shows sda2 but it's not mounted anywhere (this should be my root, swap, and data LVM) type is LVM2_member

if I type "lvm" and do a lvdisplay it shows all my volumes like it should.

My guess is that grub is having some kind of issue mounting the LVM stuff.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[evilbob]

Still working on this. I reviewing my dmesg and noticed the following.

"Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init no init found. try passing init= bootarg"
I'm not sure what to do with that

I checked the permissions on my initrd image and verified that it was in /boot
I added insmod=lvm to my /etc/default/grub file to make sure it has the LVM kernel module

I am really out of Ideas now. I think I am going to try to reinstall using a proxmox ve 2.3 cd instead of 3.0. If that works I'll try to upgrade it to 3.0 using the script.