ProxMox VE 1.5 ISO Installation Failure on 8GB HP Desktop

[Acorp]

Any idea why Proxmox 1.5 ISO would fail to install on a dual-core Intel HP desktop with 8GB of RAM?

Installation screen has status icons across the top:
<<Install>> <<Just Started>> <<webbased>>

Failure message is:

Installation failed!
The Proxmox VE could not be installed.
- Press ALT + F2 to see details

<<Message Box>>
unable to mount /dev/pve/root
<OK>

Pressing ALT-F2 does not yield any additional details (or any discernible action of any type).

Sounds like possibly a similar problem (failure on system with more than 2GB RAM) that has been around since pre 1.0, found in 1.0, 1.2, and now maybe 1.5?

Described (and unresolved) in this thread: http://forum.proxmox.com/showthread.php?p=3526#poststop

I may eventually decide to remove all but 2GB RAM just to see if it will install, but haven't tried that yet. Besides, this isn't really a "solution" because, according to the earlier thread, when the RAM is added back Proxmox fails to boot again, even though it installs correctly.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

- Acorp

 

[tom]

• update the mainbord bios to the latest version (I had such issue here with old bios)
• start the installation in debug mode (just type 'debug' on the splash screen)

maybe you can see more in the debug mode. what disks/controller setup do you have?

 

[Acorp]

Thanks for the quick response! It shouldn't have been a BIOS issue, because up until a few minutes before starting the Proxmox install I had been running a Windows machine with HP's Update program. I am not positive, but thought that the HP Update program also updates the motherboard BIOS. Anyway, not an issue because...

I don't know what happened, but persistence paid off, and the third time was the charm. I simply restarted the installation a second time, and this time received a different, but similar error:

installation of package pve-manager_1.5-5_all.deb failed

Same choices (Alt-F2, etc., but still no additional information). I rebooted to CMOS, checked everything (but didn't make any changes), then restarted the installation, and this time it completed!

I rebooted, and now have Proxmox and a couple of VM's running!

Thanks again for your help.

- Acorp
www.acorp.net

 

[tom]

this looks like a faulty hardware (not stable) , e.g. RAM