Installation Failed - Dell R730
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Can you please provide your storage setup?
Drives type, number of drives, what RAID are they in?
Have you tried (are you able to try) to install it from a USB stick?
Drives type, number of drives, what RAID are they in?
Have you tried (are you able to try) to install it from a USB stick?
Can you please provide your storage setup?
Drives type, number of drives, what RAID are they in?
Have you tried (are you able to try) to install it from a USB stick?
Hey there.
I have 10 SAS 900GB Drives on RAID10 with 2 as hot spares.
Yes, I tried installing from a physical usb and a virtual usb (via idrac).
Delete the 3,3TB Volume and create a smaller one for PVE and a larger as Datastore. I would say you hit the limitation of 2TB for non GPT drives.
I actually have two R730's, and the other one is 1.636TB on RAID10, and it still didn't work.
Seems that you're not the only one: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/intallations-failure-for-unable-bios_boot-partition.55818/
Can you try this solution: http://matnet.my/blog/2019/01/proxmox-installation-failed-unable-to-create-volume-group-pve/
It basically boils down to wiping (within iDrac it's called "initialising") the disks.
It basically boils down to wiping (within iDrac it's called "initialising") the disks.
Can you try this solution: http://matnet.my/blog/2019/01/proxmox-installation-failed-unable-to-create-volume-group-pve/
It basically boils down to wiping (within iDrac it's called "initialising") the disks.
Hey there. Thanks for the suggestions. I gave the link a look, and tried with no different result. I also tried your suggestion with factory wiping with the same result. Any other ideas?
Weird. I suggest you trying the following:
- Create a bootable USB with Proxmox installer just to make sure the stick is not corrupted
- Make sure that all USB drives of the server are enabled in BIOS
- Remove all but one hard drive from the server
- Wipe (initialise) the last drive
- Create a RAID0 VD out of it
- Set this VD as boot in BIOS
- Try installing Proxmox again
- (If it fails) try installing again with debug option: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation
Very good suggestions. However with the same result.Weird. I suggest you trying the following:
- Create a bootable USB with Proxmox installer just to make sure the stick is not corrupted
- Make sure that all USB drives of the server are enabled in BIOS
- Remove all but one hard drive from the server
- Wipe (initialise) the last drive
- Create a RAID0 VD out of it
- Set this VD as boot in BIOS
- Try installing Proxmox again
- (If it fails) try installing again with debug option: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation
That was caused from your RAID card... I was experiance with my raid card alsoo. Some time at second try will ok some time not work... For basic solition install proxmox USB 3 USB Disk and do not create SWAP are at instalation time on USB after you can create SWAP area on high speed storage...
Disk /dev/sda: 464.7 GiB, 498999492608 bytes, 974608384 sectors
Disk model: ServeRAID M5015
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 68C4115D-0A5F-4CA1-99AE-0D30E51CF999
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 34 2047 2014 1007K BIOS boot
/dev/sda2 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda3 1050624 974608350 973557727 464.2G Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sda: 464.7 GiB, 498999492608 bytes, 974608384 sectors
Disk model: ServeRAID M5015
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 68C4115D-0A5F-4CA1-99AE-0D30E51CF999
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 34 2047 2014 1007K BIOS boot
/dev/sda2 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda3 1050624 974608350 973557727 464.2G Linux LVM
I'm a little lost on what you are suggesting. Are you saying to install Proxmox on an external USB drive? I wanting Proxmox on my RAID storage.That was caused from your RAID card... I was experiance with my raid card alsoo. Some time at second try will ok some time not work... For basic solition install proxmox USB 3 USB Disk and do not create SWAP are at instalation time on USB after you can create SWAP area on high speed storage...
Disk /dev/sda: 464.7 GiB, 498999492608 bytes, 974608384 sectors
Disk model: ServeRAID M5015
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 68C4115D-0A5F-4CA1-99AE-0D30E51CF999
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 34 2047 2014 1007K BIOS boot
/dev/sda2 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda3 1050624 974608350 973557727 464.2G Linux LVM
For the record, I went ahead and installed Debian Buster, described here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster . It would be marvelous if the installer would work, though, because I had a little more trouble with the LVM configuration doing it this way. Thank you for all the help.
I'm a little lost on what you are suggesting. Are you saying to install Proxmox on an external USB drive? I wanting Proxmox on my RAID storage.
You not need install to disk via RAID card, you not need more more performance for Proxmox himself.. Bay the way Proxmox and KVM use same SWAP area for all guest so you only need high speed disk for swap area basically install Proxmox USB disk and use another disk for SWAP areaa...