Problems installing Proxmox 4.4 on Xeon e3-1245 v5 with c236 chipset

[Jacob Sander Andersen]

Hi all,

I am trying to install Proxmox on a Xeon e3-1245 v5 inserted into a supermicro X11SAE-M motherboard with the intel c236 chipset.

When installing from USB then the installation exist with an installation aborted message.

Prior to that message I see the following message:

modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'i915_bpo': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmseg)

After the: "Installing additional hardware drivers" message I see:

[ 8.111354] snd_hda_intel 000:00:1f:3: failed to add i915_bpo component master (-19)

So what is wrong. To me it seems like the 4.4 kernel is having problems with the sound driver of the c236 chipset or something similar. I would be okay if I could just disable the problematic module and then move on with the install as I do not need sound at all (It is going to be running as a headless server).

Any inputs of how to either fix this or disable/blacklist the problematic module so it is not loaded?

UPDATE: Ubuntu 16.04 with the 4.8 kernel installs just fine. Is there anyway I can run the installer using a newer kernel?

Thanks, JSA

 

[morph027]

Its the GPU. You should be able to blacklist it.
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/intel-skylake-igpu-i915-breaks-proxmox-4-1.25892

 

[Jacob Sander Andersen]

Check and Thanks.

I will try and black list it.

I suppose Proxmox 5 will not have this issue as it will have a never kernel?

/JSA

 

[Jacob Sander Andersen]

I re-created a USB drive and then booted this time via UEFI and it just worked. It came up with the same error message but instead of exiting then it continued and I was able to complete the install without the blacklisting etc.

I have no idea why it suddenly was able to continue but thanks for the help!

/JSA