hey guys, fairly new to proxmox, although ive had it installed on a old pc before and it worked fine, ive finally bought my first server and have been trying to get proxmox installed on it for the past week and im about to give up, the servers a dl380 g9, ive created multiple different install usbs none of which have helped, every time i try to install proxmox i seem to get a new error, mostly at the start of install, ive gotten it to install with debug but once i try to reboot it i get an error saying /dev/mapper/pve-root doesnt exist, id really like to use proxmox but at this point im ready to go with something else. ive tried everything that ive found in similar threads and nothing seems to help.
proxmox install issues
- Thread starter xoticc
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Hi,
- What errors did you get exactly?
- Have you updated the firmware to the latest version available?
- Do you have Smart Array configured? HBA mode? What disks?
- Etc etc.
- What disk configuration did you choose during install?
- How did you exactly create these USB flash drives installation mediums?
- What errors did you get exactly?
- What hardware exactly? These come in very, very different configurations ..
- Have you updated the firmware to the latest version available?
- Do you have Smart Array configured? HBA mode? What disks?
- Etc etc.
- What disk configuration did you choose during install?
Hi, ive tried belena etcher, rufus, ventoy, and hpes usb key software, on a 32gb, 64gb, and a 128gb usb drive, aswell as through ilo, the one time i got it to install it gave me a error saying /dev/mapper/pve-root does not exist. server has a single e5-2640 v4 cpu, 96gb of ram, and currently has a 500gb wd ssd. its currently up to date. i previously had proxmox installed on it but the gui was constantly losing connection so i decided to reinstall the os in case of any bugs but now i cannot reinstall it.
Is it configured as Smart Array? Passed through to the OS in HBA? Some other Hardware RAID?
Kind of gears me towards Hardware/"magic" RAID configurations which do not play well.
I guess you used simple ext4 on a single disk during installation?
Also, what error(s) did you get during installation? That would also be very helpful in determining what the actual problem is.