[SOLVED] ProxMox setup failed (NVIDIA GPU)

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EinKilian

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A few days ago, I installed ProxMox on an old PC of mine with an M2 SSD. I thought it was running very slowly, so I decided to format the hard drive. Everything went well, and it worked.

But now, ProxMox no longer recognizes this SSD. When I perform a Windows installation, it is recognized without any errors.

Here are a few error codes. After that „error codes“ it goes to a black screen and stays at that. How can I fix this?
 

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Now my question is, how can I restore this SSD so that ProxMox can perform the installation?

Thanks to everyone who is tryinf to help me!
 
EinKilian said:
old PC of mine with an M2 SSD. I thought it was running very slowly
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It is generally a bad idea to install PVE on (I assume) old M2 SSD. It is basically going to destroy it if it has not already.

EinKilian said:
When I perform a Windows installation, it is recognized without any errors.
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Does it actually work or you stopped at the installer being able to see the drive?

EinKilian said:
Now my question is, how can I restore this SSD so that ProxMox can perform the installation?
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You would be best to first e.g. live boot from another media and check what SMART values say on that SSD. But be prepared that PVE will by shredding it with copious writes.
 
esi_y said:
It is generally a bad idea to install PVE on (I assume) old M2 SSD. It is basically going to destroy it if it has not already.



Does it actually work or you stopped at the installer being able to see the drive?



You would be best to first e.g. live boot from another media and check what SMART values say on that SSD. But be prepared that PVE will by shredding it with copious writes.
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Hey..
So I tried an another ssd (recently buyed - today) and I got the same issue.

I‘m driving crazy…
 
EinKilian said:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
SSD: SN580 NVMe M.2 (1TB)
RAM: 2x4gb ddr4
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Alright, first, the SSD will not be a good choice for Proxmox VE (you will consume the TBW sooner than you think), but that does not explain why you are experiencing your issues on Ryzen 5 or on 8GB RAM.

What stage do you get to? You install PVE and it cannot reboot? You run it but is "slow"? Are you able to share (attach) logs from the system running for a while?

journalctl -b 0 > pve.log
 
esi_y said:
Alright, first, the SSD will not be a good choice for Proxmox VE (you will consume the TBW sooner than you think), but that does not explain why you are experiencing your issues on Ryzen 5 or on 8GB RAM.

What stage do you get to? You install PVE and it cannot reboot? You run it but is "slow"? Are you able to share (attach) logs from the system running for a while?

journalctl -b 0 > pve.log
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https://media.discordapp.net/attach...a40b04e235b924835fc9fe659057287af9b3cb3585f8&

So its looking, I don‘t even have a console. It stays on this black screen.
 
Is there any reason why your first video was PVE v8 and this one is v7.4?

Of course it would make everything easier to start installing from scratch and v8. Since you are already making it into a video, is your NVMe drive recognised by the firmware at all? You need to be more explicit what you are doing and where you got stuck. If you throw everything at it, it's hard to help because it's not possible to make sense of it for someone not by your side watching it all.
 
esi_y said:
Is there any reason why your first video was PVE v8 and this one is v7.4?

Of course it would make everything easier to start installing from scratch and v8. Since you are already making it into a video, is your NVMe drive recognised by the firmware at all? You need to be more explicit what you are doing and where you got stuck. If you throw everything at it, it's hard to help because it's not possible to make sense of it for someone not by your side watching it all.
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A few days ago, I installed Proxmox using an ISO file on a bootable USB stick. The first installation went perfectly, and Proxmox was running, though not as smoothly as I had expected. It was running on version PVE v7.4.

I decided to clean my disk, but after doing so, I encountered issues with booting. Both my old SSD and my new SSD have firmware and are initialized with my motherboard. This is the problem I’m facing, and I’m quite frustrated.

I’ve been trying to install Proxmox PVE 8.2, but nothing happens. I also tried reverting to PVE v7.4 without success. Do you understand me?
 
EinKilian said:
A few days ago, I installed Proxmox using an ISO file on a bootable USB stick. The first installation went perfectly, and Proxmox was running, though not as smoothly as I had expected. It was running on version PVE v7.4.

I decided to clean my disk, but after doing so, I encountered issues with booting. Both my old SSD and my new SSD have firmware and are initialized with my motherboard. This is the problem I’m facing, and I’m quite frustrated.

I’ve been trying to install Proxmox PVE 8.2, but nothing happens. I also tried reverting to PVE v7.4 without success. Do you understand me?
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Ok, from those pieces of advice above:

1) Have you tried the "nomodeset" option?
2) Have you tried to install Debian first?

And I will add another one - are you able to e.g. boot a Live ISO of Debian:

https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
 
esi_y said:
Ok, from those pieces of advice above:

1) Have you tried the "nomodeset" option?
2) Have you tried to install Debian first?

And I will add another one - are you able to e.g. boot a Live ISO of Debian:

https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
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Adding the nomodeset Kernel Parameter​

Problems may arise on very old or very new hardware due to graphics drivers. If the installation hangs during boot, you can try adding the nomodeset parameter. This prevents the Linux kernel from loading any graphics drivers and forces it to continue using the BIOS/UEFI-provided framebuffer.
On the Proxmox VE bootloader menu, navigate to [I]Install Proxmox VE (Terminal UI)[/I] and press e to edit the entry. Using the arrow keys, navigate to the line starting with linux, move the cursor to the end of that line and add the parameter nomodeset, separated by a space from the pre-existing last parameter.
Then press Ctrl-X or F10 to boot the configuration.


So the funny part is: if I press E, nothing happens. :)

I am currently installing debian iso - need a few hours
 
EinKilian said:

Adding the nomodeset Kernel Parameter​

Problems may arise on very old or very new hardware due to graphics drivers. If the installation hangs during boot, you can try adding the nomodeset parameter. This prevents the Linux kernel from loading any graphics drivers and forces it to continue using the BIOS/UEFI-provided framebuffer.
On the Proxmox VE bootloader menu, navigate to [I]Install Proxmox VE (Terminal UI)[/I] and press e to edit the entry. Using the arrow keys, navigate to the line starting with linux, move the cursor to the end of that line and add the parameter nomodeset, separated by a space from the pre-existing last parameter.
Then press Ctrl-X or F10 to boot the configuration.


So the funny part is: if I press E, nothing happens. :)

I am currently installing debian iso - need a few hours
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Let's just rule out it's the PVE installer at fault.

The LIVE Debian allows you to simply boot off e.g. USB without having to have access to any drives and troubleshoot. But of course if you can install regular Debian and put PVE on top of it.

It's just very strange from what you described, as if something changed in terms of hardware.
 
esi_y said:
Let's just rule out it's the PVE installer at fault.

The LIVE Debian allows you to simply boot off e.g. USB without having to have access to any drives and troubleshoot. But of course if you can install regular Debian and put PVE on top of it.

It's just very strange from what you described, as if something changed in terms of hardware.
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OKAY OMG - I am at this point iam just stupid.

My fault: I started the installisation and pressing E. But I had to press E before I start the installisation. Now proxmox with that parameter is booting the installisation.

But now I run into the issue, if the install is finished my pc goes into a boot loop, without successful boot. Any advice?
 
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