Installed Proxmox VE 1.4 and get Stage 1.5 on reboot

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I have a 8x2TB raid 10 volume on a 3ware 9650SE8-LP. I used the 3ware setup to partition 50GB before the 2TB raid slicing and installed Proxmox. Upon reboot I get "Loading Stage 1.5" repeating over and over again. XenServer installed just fine with the same partitioning.

Do I need to make the slices slightly smaller than 2048MB? Like 1.9? Would that work then? I'm a Mac user and am tired of using Windows to configure my VM servers so want Proxmox to work.

Sorry for the possibly confusing post, my fever is hitting 101 and I've been working on this all day long.
 
Nobody has any ideas? I'm going to try and install it on a separate HD inside the server and just use the RAID array for storage on Monday.
 
That's entirely possibly. Just for giggles I did get Xenserver installed and realized how bad it was for Linux setups so wanted to try Proxmox which I couldn't get installed. I'll try to install PM onto a separate SATA drive and then install the 3ware card and get it up and running that way. I ordered a 32GB SSD drive to try as a boot drive, but I'll experiment with another HD until I get it.
 
Okay, I can install PVE onto the single hard drive without the 3ware card installed and it boots fine. If I have the 3ware card installed I can't even install PVE onto the single hard drive.
 
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I figured out the Stage1.5 problem was due to grub being broken on installation, so ironically enough the ESXi installer helped me fix it. I accidentally picked "boot from hard drive" on the esxi installer and it booted my PVE install! I then fixed the grub and now I can boot. I cannot see any volumes except the /sda because the others are auto-sliced at 2048MB which is what's causing them to not show up I think. Here's a partial output of fdisk:

Disk /dev/sdb: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255040 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 266305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 266306 2147483647+ ee EFI GPT

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdc'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
 
hello rugby

i've got the same 3ware controller type and during install the same issue with the stage1.5 error.
finaly I could install PVE 1.4 after creating in the 3ware bios a small boot partition of 64GB. this is far enough for the OS itself. But I assume there is somewhere a littel evil sitting in

grub which does not allow to have a larger partition. even if you use the 3ware carving function for slices < 2048GB. btw. does PVE use grub 2 , just an idea which pops up while I'm writing

here.
on the other side I have a 16TB file server with a 3ware controller and I installed DEBIAN Lenny w/o anny issue within a 2048GB slice. but I used the old grub.
anyway, its a bit strange that we cant install PVE within a 2048GB slice.

second test I did : I removed the 3ware controller and attached four 1GB disk directly to the RAID5 sata controller on the motherboard. Then I was able to install PVE w/o problems within one

big partition. I assume there is somewhere a bug in grub in cooperation with a 3ware controller and large slices.

regards
tom
 
Sumsum,

Thanks for confirming my findings. I'm not nuts.

I can't even get PVE to boot with a 100GB partition, would a 64GB one work better? I have my carving settings at 1.9TB just for testing and it still doesn't work.

I think it's a sata vs. emulated scsi that 3ware does that causes problems I'm guessing.

I'm going to try a debian net-install and then a manual PVE install to see how that works for me. I'm tired of messing around with this VM server, I just might buy ESX and be done with it.

FYI, I was and am still wanting to contribute financially to this project, but with the problems I'm having I am second-guessing that.
 
I tried a 64GB partition and same problem. I'm downloading Debian Lenny (only 1 DVD out of the 5) to see if I can get a working install going and then do the PVE install from inside Debian.

I really want to like this product, but this initial headache of installing it is a pain.

On the other hand, every time I try and install ESX 4.0 and use the driver cd the install hangs and says there are no drivers available on the disc so it cannot install onto my raid array either.
 
just an idea for investigation. after you installed PVE, can you boot your system with a linux live CD like KNOPPIX and post here the Grub config file. I'm wondering how this looks like.
I cant understand the behavior, because the 3ware products are very well supported within the linux kernel since years. I never had issues with debian and 3ware. I run several file servers with 3ware controllers and they run rock solid.
cheers
tom
 
I downloaded the Debian 5.03 DVD Disc 1 last night and just installed it fine on the 64GB partition on my 3ware raid array. What does PVE do to Grub that's breaking on reboot?

sumsum,

I'll check on that later tonight, I have to go to work in a bit.
 
sumsum,

Thanks for finding that out. I really want to know why my install won't work. I'm running out of time and energy on this project.

I just picked up a 32GB SSD drive today I might try installing on. This will be a production server in a datacenter so I'm not wild about installing the boot OS onto a non-raid volume.
 
Why am I not getting more help on this? Is this not a good way to get support? I get one reply from an employee every 17 hours or so, that's not enough to get me back up and running here if you want me to use your product and pay for it. I am willing to donate to your company, but so far the support sucks and I am NOT impressed.
 
rugby said:
Why am I not getting more help on this? Is this not a good way to get support? I get one reply from an employee every 17 hours or so
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So we have a 17hour response time on a non-critical issue at weekends. Considering the fact that we als have different time zones thats quite OK for a free support forum.
 
rugby said:
Why am I not getting more help on this? Is this not a good way to get support? I get one reply from an employee every 17 hours or so, that's not enough to get me back up and running here if you want me to use your product and pay for it. I am willing to donate to your company, but so far the support sucks and I am NOT impressed.
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this is a community support forum. all guys here are very motivated and works for free to help you - I assume you do not understand this.

if you need a defined support agreement, go for the commercial support offerings.

Forum Admin.
 
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this is a community support forum. all guys here are very motivated and works for free to help you - I assume you do not understand this.

if you need a defined support agreement, go for the commercial support offerings.

Forum Admin.
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You're right, I didn't know it was a community support forum and apologize for my outburst.

I am now evaluating the commercial support option, with the USD so awful right now I'm not sure what path we will go down.

If anyone has anything else to try in regards to my issue installing that would be great. I'm not a great Linux guy, CentOS mainly as well, so Debian is sometimes a foreign language to me. How can I read the grub file when booted from a livecd?
 
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