Installing Proxmox 9.0 on a separate drive than my Linix Mint 22

[RonC1952]

All,

I have a pc that has two drives on it. The original primary drive has Linix Mint Cinnamon 22 on it. This system was working fine and loaded through Github. I will use this pc to operate my NAS system once I have everything up and running. My second drive I have installed Proxmox 9.0 VE on it. After I rebooted after all the updates in Proxmox the machine boots directly into proxmox without the option in Github to switch to Linix Mint. Is there a way through the terminal to add linix to the proxmox github screen?

 

[Blueloop]

Proxmox is not normally a dual boot choice but it is basically a Debian box with nobs on. I think that Proxmox will assume it is the only operating system on a system because that normally makes sense - you can run lots of systems as VMs with Proxmox.

However, your use case is still valid (obviously). You want to dual boot Proxmox and Mint.

Proxmox usually boots using something called GRUB. You will need to add a boot entry for Mint, which is not particularly easy. You will need to work out where Mint is located (it sounds like /dev/sda).

What you want to do is possible but not easy. If you want to try virtualization, then your Mint install can already do that - look into libvirtd and Virtualbox and VMware workstation.

Proxmox really needs the whole system - its a proper hypervisor and doesn't bother with niceties (but it will do as you ask if you know how)!

 

[celemine1gig]

The key you are looking for probably is "GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER". Googling that string will tell you details.
And who would've thought, that Github isn't Grub?!? ;-)

 

[Rares]

Side question, have you considered installing Proxmox and after that installing the graphical interface that comes with Debian? In this way you can have a Proxmox + Desktop.

I did not test it but I'm curious if it works to have Linux Mint LMDE (Debian 12) and install Proxmox on top of it.

 

[celemine1gig]

Side question, have you considered installing Proxmox and after that installing the graphical interface that comes with Debian? In this way you can have a Proxmox + Desktop.

Works perfectly fine. I have some systems setup like that, due to details in the use case, that made this appear to be the best choice. I am talking about home setups, as this is not considered to be best practice.

I did not test it but I'm curious if it works to have Linux Mint LMDE (Debian 12) and install Proxmox on top of it.

Most likely a bad idea, as the LMDE repositories might at some point get in the way of Proxmox updates or the other way around.