Good evening,
A very quick feature request for the Proxmox devs.
I am trying to get Proxmox 3.x working on some Apple Xserve (late 2006) servers which meet all of the Proxmox hardware requirements but they do not support booting via BIOS or 64-bit EFI.
This particular model of Xserve only supports 32-bit EFI booting but will happily boot a 64-bit Debian Wheezy kernel using grub-efi-ia32:
root@test:/# uname -a
Linux test 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My problem is that the Proxmox pve-kernel package states that it does not support booting using grub-efi-ia32:
Preparing to replace pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve 2.6.32-114 (using .../pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve_2.6.32-114_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve:
pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve depends on grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64; however:
Package grub-pc is not installed.
Package grub-efi-amd64 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve
Would it be possible to add 'grub-efi-ia32' as a grub-like dependency alongside 'grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64' in the next release of the pve-kernel package - e.g. make it 'grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64 | grub-efi-ia32' instead ?
Thanks for your attention!
Regards,
Terry
A very quick feature request for the Proxmox devs.
I am trying to get Proxmox 3.x working on some Apple Xserve (late 2006) servers which meet all of the Proxmox hardware requirements but they do not support booting via BIOS or 64-bit EFI.
This particular model of Xserve only supports 32-bit EFI booting but will happily boot a 64-bit Debian Wheezy kernel using grub-efi-ia32:
root@test:/# uname -a
Linux test 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My problem is that the Proxmox pve-kernel package states that it does not support booting using grub-efi-ia32:
Preparing to replace pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve 2.6.32-114 (using .../pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve_2.6.32-114_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve:
pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve depends on grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64; however:
Package grub-pc is not installed.
Package grub-efi-amd64 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve
Would it be possible to add 'grub-efi-ia32' as a grub-like dependency alongside 'grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64' in the next release of the pve-kernel package - e.g. make it 'grub-pc | grub-efi-amd64 | grub-efi-ia32' instead ?
Thanks for your attention!
Regards,
Terry