Hear yee! hear yee!
Come one, come all HP owners in dire need with your new mistress Proxmox!
Have yee restless nights, forced away from thee slumber, as the machine quietly beeps and the fans constantly roar as you murder it !
Follow this path closely - and the comments even more- for I am merely a guide blessed with the way, but not the knowledge!
With the dramatic scene out of the way, let's get down to business
Needs : ( apart from your personal and individual) for proxmox install
-Flash 8GB no larger than 16GB usb/usb2 support.
-HP server
-Good night of rest
-Patience
-Punching bag
Media:Software needed to make this work
-HPE upgrade tool
-Rufus USB making tool
-Proxmox 6.4 (any version should do - but using what is currently listed on the website)
- A guide for setting up the repos as this version doesn't support it
Chapter 1:Upgrade Server Firmware
1. The HPE upgrade tool that you downloaded ( at the time of article it is 9.30) extract that folder onto windows PC (YES WINDOWS).
2. Open extracted folder and mount the ISO ( Right click and mount in windows 10).
3. GO to computer and open the mounted ISO that is now displayed as a CD/DVD ROM and open it.
4. Navigate to the following folder usb/hpusbkey/
5. Inside is an executable (.exe or program for you wipper snappers) called hpusb key.
6. insert your usb drive and launch the program with admin rights
7. Follow on screen instruction and let it make a bootable usb ( it does not work any other way - not even with rufus.)
8. Wait patiently as this program takes it time regardless of system. If you are lucky, be blessed. If not - don't be impatient. Punch the bag
9. After your first eternal banishment - and the program complete. Eject and move over to your server with USB in hand - I don't have a guide on setting up your server, so hopefully you got that done on your own
10. Boot the usb and select the automatic update process. Make sure it has interweebs access. Leave it, but stay close enough - as the program will automatically reboot once done - but also if there is unrecoverable error. Your job description is slightly distracted watcher during this process.
11. Once done - take flash back to windows PC, use rufus to make bootable USB or burn - proxmox 6.4 on the USB. While waiting - make sure your server is ready to roll.
12. Once done - back to server with USB in hand - boot to proxmox 6.4. Make the install.
13. You have now slay the dragon, oh fierce knight!
Chapter 2: getting to the latest version
1. open proxmox on web interface.
2. click on your node - run shell ( top right corner)
3. follow this guide to add and remove needed repos
4. update && upgrade
5. PLEASE READ UP ON THE UPGRADE AND UPDATE WIKI - I was able to jump from 6.4.1 to 7.3.1 with 0 issues. Might not be the case for you - so follow the wikki and don't remind me how I got lucky.
6. Once done - reboot. Don't check nothing - if the update ran happy and no errors - just reboot.
7. Confirm successful boot
8. Praise the Lord Sun! We have made it!
Chapter 3: Notation
So this was a week long drug infested freak show with no sleep because some jack@55 figured this out about 10 years ago and never posted it. Why in F#@k's name they didn't just lable it correctly I don't know.
So - if you run into a bug - and fix it - PLEASE POST IT AND LINK IT BACK TO OTHER POST!
A lot of people on here mentioned firmware but all have support - unlike the average JOE that doesn't have it. So I linked it and I am going to try and get a copy of it on here permanently - as the original method of fixing this was just using proxmox 7.1 - but there is no longer an ISO and proxmox doesn't seem to have an archive for the free subs - cause then everyone would have noticed the changes made causing the issue.
Credits: System
HP DL360g5 running dual xeon E5000 series with a p400i controller. Yes I use the controller - it works fine once the update is made. Seems HP is not at fault as they listed it - but no one actually bothered to just let the public know that the firmware update resolved the problem.
Bonus Content:
Here is a list of my interwebs crawlers work I used to stitch this together. No, the dramatic scene is WAAAY MORE DRAMA LAMA than it needs to be
-Video - check the description - it has the post link there as well
-Thread
PS: the nomodeset and vga=794 or whatever doesn't work - just causes the server to hang and kernal to lock up. Or the screen just switches off and no - leaving it running doesn't do SHIZA
Come one, come all HP owners in dire need with your new mistress Proxmox!
Have yee restless nights, forced away from thee slumber, as the machine quietly beeps and the fans constantly roar as you murder it !
Follow this path closely - and the comments even more- for I am merely a guide blessed with the way, but not the knowledge!
With the dramatic scene out of the way, let's get down to business
Needs : ( apart from your personal and individual) for proxmox install
-Flash 8GB no larger than 16GB usb/usb2 support.
-HP server
-Good night of rest
-Patience
-Punching bag
Media:Software needed to make this work
-HPE upgrade tool
-Rufus USB making tool
-Proxmox 6.4 (any version should do - but using what is currently listed on the website)
- A guide for setting up the repos as this version doesn't support it
Chapter 1:Upgrade Server Firmware
1. The HPE upgrade tool that you downloaded ( at the time of article it is 9.30) extract that folder onto windows PC (YES WINDOWS).
2. Open extracted folder and mount the ISO ( Right click and mount in windows 10).
3. GO to computer and open the mounted ISO that is now displayed as a CD/DVD ROM and open it.
4. Navigate to the following folder usb/hpusbkey/
5. Inside is an executable (.exe or program for you wipper snappers) called hpusb key.
6. insert your usb drive and launch the program with admin rights
7. Follow on screen instruction and let it make a bootable usb ( it does not work any other way - not even with rufus.)
8. Wait patiently as this program takes it time regardless of system. If you are lucky, be blessed. If not - don't be impatient. Punch the bag
9. After your first eternal banishment - and the program complete. Eject and move over to your server with USB in hand - I don't have a guide on setting up your server, so hopefully you got that done on your own
10. Boot the usb and select the automatic update process. Make sure it has interweebs access. Leave it, but stay close enough - as the program will automatically reboot once done - but also if there is unrecoverable error. Your job description is slightly distracted watcher during this process.
11. Once done - take flash back to windows PC, use rufus to make bootable USB or burn - proxmox 6.4 on the USB. While waiting - make sure your server is ready to roll.
12. Once done - back to server with USB in hand - boot to proxmox 6.4. Make the install.
13. You have now slay the dragon, oh fierce knight!
Chapter 2: getting to the latest version
1. open proxmox on web interface.
2. click on your node - run shell ( top right corner)
3. follow this guide to add and remove needed repos
4. update && upgrade
5. PLEASE READ UP ON THE UPGRADE AND UPDATE WIKI - I was able to jump from 6.4.1 to 7.3.1 with 0 issues. Might not be the case for you - so follow the wikki and don't remind me how I got lucky.
6. Once done - reboot. Don't check nothing - if the update ran happy and no errors - just reboot.
7. Confirm successful boot
8. Praise the Lord Sun! We have made it!
Chapter 3: Notation
So this was a week long drug infested freak show with no sleep because some jack@55 figured this out about 10 years ago and never posted it. Why in F#@k's name they didn't just lable it correctly I don't know.
So - if you run into a bug - and fix it - PLEASE POST IT AND LINK IT BACK TO OTHER POST!
A lot of people on here mentioned firmware but all have support - unlike the average JOE that doesn't have it. So I linked it and I am going to try and get a copy of it on here permanently - as the original method of fixing this was just using proxmox 7.1 - but there is no longer an ISO and proxmox doesn't seem to have an archive for the free subs - cause then everyone would have noticed the changes made causing the issue.
Credits: System
HP DL360g5 running dual xeon E5000 series with a p400i controller. Yes I use the controller - it works fine once the update is made. Seems HP is not at fault as they listed it - but no one actually bothered to just let the public know that the firmware update resolved the problem.
Bonus Content:
Here is a list of my interwebs crawlers work I used to stitch this together. No, the dramatic scene is WAAAY MORE DRAMA LAMA than it needs to be
-Video - check the description - it has the post link there as well
-Thread
PS: the nomodeset and vga=794 or whatever doesn't work - just causes the server to hang and kernal to lock up. Or the screen just switches off and no - leaving it running doesn't do SHIZA