make system bootable problem

[reflector_bl]

I attempted to install proxmox-ve_1.1-3664.iso. All went well until the
end when the system froze at the make system bootable step. Anyone
have any suggestions or ideas as to what is wrong.

 

[reflector_bl]

I solved my own problem, by waiting 15 minutes. I was fooled by the
progress bar which showed 99% at making partition bootable. It took
15 minutes for this to complete.

Sorry for the false alarm.

 

[tom]

I solved my own problem, by waiting 15 minutes. I was fooled by the
progress bar which showed 99% at making partition bootable. It took
15 minutes for this to complete.

Sorry for the false alarm.

no idea whats wrong but this should take only a few seconds.

 

[SegfaultWizard]

I too am saw this issue. I hung for about 5-7 minutes at 99% and "make system bootable". Hardly a critical issue, but if you are interested in troubleshooting it, or if I should file it as a bug somewhere, let me know what you need and I'll happily help.

 

[tom]

I too am saw this issue. I hung for about 5-7 minutes at 99% and "make system bootable". Hardly a critical issue, but if you are interested in troubleshooting it, or if I should file it as a bug somewhere, let me know what you need and I'll happily help.

pls post the bug report in the forum. best would be to the have such a problematic hardware here in our test lab to debug.

 

[nico]

Hi,

i am just trying to install Proxmox for testing and ran into the same issue.

The error displayed on the 2nd tty seem to be coming from Grub:

- unknown partition table signature
- Buffer I/O error on device fd0

and it loops between these errors.

Just like the others, it completed fine after 5-10 minutes.

Not sure if it matters, but Proxmox actually didn't detected my hardware Raid array. It offered me the choice between the 2 drives.
It might be because it's a shitty raid controller though.

nico

 

[tom]

Hi,

i am just trying to install Proxmox for testing and ran into the same issue.

The error displayed on the 2nd tty seem to be coming from Grub:

- unknown partition table signature
- Buffer I/O error on device fd0

nico

can you try disabling floppy disk support your mainboard bios and test again?

 

[nico]

good point

that did the trick.
Grub installed instantly.

thanks,
nico

 

[dietmar]

Not sure if it matters, but Proxmox actually didn't detected my hardware Raid array. It offered me the choice between the 2 drives.

What HW Raid controller (vendor/model)?

 

[nico]

From lspci:

Silicon Image, Inc. Adaptec AAR-1210SA SATA HostRAID Controller (rev 02)

And the output from fdisk -l from the proxmox server shows that it detects the drives separately and only uses one:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          66      524288   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              66       30401   243671712   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x42eecb09

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-0: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 62.2 GB, 62277025792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7571 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-2: 178.6 GB, 178656378880 bytes

But once again, I just setup a box quickly for testing, so that might just be me...

 

[dietmar]

AFAIK this is no HW RAID controller at all (also called fake-raid).