[SOLVED] Installer failure, "Installation aborted - unable to continue"

[Helle]

We have a few Huawei servers (1288H V5) that was going to run Proxmox. However the installer 6.4 does not work on these. It ends with Installation aborted - unable to continue
This seems to happen just before the Installer Gui is about to start.

Searching the internet reveals this is a problem since 6.0 and forward.

Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/iniknj/unable_to_install_proxmox_ve_62/
and
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/p...leases-in-persistent-database-sleeping.58509/

It would be nice if the installer could be run in legacy mode (ncurses) like Debian or if this issue could be fixed if the Gui-Installer is mandatory for some unknown reason.

Can anyone suggest a workaround except installing a generic debian and add proxmox later.

Proxmox is too good to be stopped by a flaky installer.

 

[t.lamprecht]

Huawei servers (1288H V5)

We got some reports from issues with huawei servers, it's really them doing something weird but even after a quite some hours of investigation on such a system we could not really find any culprit (or fix).

It would be nice if the installer could be run in legacy mode (ncurses) like Debian or if this issue could be fixed if the Gui-Installer is mandatory for some unknown reason.

A TUI mode for the installer is planned

Can anyone suggest a workaround except installing a generic debian and add proxmox later.

That is the most valid workaround there is, so why is that not wanted? ZFS on root?

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster

 

[t.lamprecht]

PS. one user with such a huawei server reported that they could use the 5.4 ISO. So, you could try to use that and then immediately upgrade after wards if ZFS is required, that's almost as good as a fresh installation on 6.4.

 

[Helle]

My colleague just managed to work around the issue and will write down what he did so we can help solving this...

Here is the solution:

Start the 6.4 installer iso
Let it fail.

manually configure networking interface, gw and dns
start the interface

chmod 1777 /tmp
apt update

Xorg -configure
cp /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Change Driver from "modeset" to "fbdev"

xinit

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hmm, IIRC that was tried and did not fixed the issue on the support case we had.

Glad it worked for you and thanks for sharing for anybody else though!

 

[cyber7]

My colleague just managed to work around the issue and will write down what he did so we can help solving this...

Here is the solution:

Start the 6.4 installer iso
Let it fail.

manually configure networking interface, gw and dns
start the interface

chmod 1777 /tmp
apt update

Xorg -configure
cp /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Change Driver from "modeset" to "fbdev"

xinit

It seems this is also working for my very old SuperMicro Server. Thank you!
regards
AubreyKloppers (aka cyber7)
Cape Town
South Africa

 

[JohnyTheR]

The same problem with PVE 7.1 and Proliant DL380 GEN6 installation via remote console. Resolved by installing 6.4 and upgrading to 7

 

[dlira]

My colleague just managed to work around the issue and will write down what he did so we can help solving this...

Here is the solution:

Start the 6.4 installer iso
Let it fail.

manually configure networking interface, gw and dns
start the interface

chmod 1777 /tmp
apt update

Xorg -configure
cp /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Change Driver from "modeset" to "fbdev"

xinit

Thank you very much, with the last release I had the same problem, only in my case the problem is with an amdgpu , I changed the value "amdgpu" to fbdev in xorg.conf and it worked perfectly.

From :


To:


Now its working

 

[Softlution]

Here is how i did it. https://youtu.be/-6fRTpmmuHs

 

[bnhf]

Here is how i did it. https://youtu.be/-6fRTpmmuHs

Thanks for posting your solution -- worked for me too using an i9-13900 installed in an Asus B760M-A B4 motherboard. Interestingly, I didn't have this issue with the same motherboard but using an i9-12900. 13th generation instead of 12th and it breaks the Proxmox 7.4 installer!

 

[Softlution]

No worries mate. Happy to help. I suppose it has to do with the CPU integrated graphics. Here is a way I found solving easily errors using chatGPT https://youtube.com/shorts/2E53ASqh6zo?feature=share