Good day please can someone kindly assist me with the following issue :
basically i have 2 problems :
1) Cannot boot from USB media
2) Cannot boot from the hardrive once the proxmox OS is installed using CD/DVD Drive
i have a HP 500b/2a8c Microtower its a very old computer yes i know.
But i just want to use it as a dedicated Machine to host a Proxmox VM setup.
However the problem is after installing it never seems to boot , it just says no bootable media found .
If i take the drive that i just installed proxmox from it will boot in another computer just fine , but it seems in this machine it doesn't want to boot , i've tried updating BIOS to the latest revision but still doesn't seem to work.
During installation of proxmox i'm just using the default settings its on ext4 when installing & the install runs fine , but once it reboots it never comes up again , the only way to get it to boot is to use the rescue option on the installation boot media for proxmox. but i can't be booting it like that everytime.
And yes i know its likely GRUB just like every other article i've read mentions , but even if i boot from a live iso & perfom the mounting and then grub-update / grub-install , it doesn't work all the commands work fine and looks like its going to work , but on reboot it still wont boot.
My one concern is UEFI , i dont know much about it , but what i noticed is that i can install windows 7 / 8 / 10 on this machine just fine and from my understanding windows 10 uses UEFI to boot? I can also install other linux GRUB based installs like debian and fedora onto the drive and reboot and it boots just fine , but for some reason proxmox will not boot after being installed.
BTW : installation media is a CD-ROM / DVD because it doesn't seem to boot from USB on proxmox installer iso either , but other live iso's and installation media work just fine.
Proxmox Version: 5.2.1
Hard drive is 1TB Toshiba / but i have swapped for others and same problem.
When trying to install from USB Media:
I use rufus to make the Bootable Flash - ISO mode (DD mode doesn't register it as bootable).
but it gets to the mounting / un-mounting of something and doesn't seem to register the drive.
Hence i just went with using the Physical CD that i burnt from the proxmox ISO then use that and it works fine.
So from my diagnosis is that its not the Installation Media / Hard drive.
Does anyone have any ideas how to resolve this any help would be appreciated gladly TIA.
I also have this screenshot of how the partitions look after installing proxmox :
basically i have 2 problems :
1) Cannot boot from USB media
2) Cannot boot from the hardrive once the proxmox OS is installed using CD/DVD Drive
i have a HP 500b/2a8c Microtower its a very old computer yes i know.
But i just want to use it as a dedicated Machine to host a Proxmox VM setup.
However the problem is after installing it never seems to boot , it just says no bootable media found .
If i take the drive that i just installed proxmox from it will boot in another computer just fine , but it seems in this machine it doesn't want to boot , i've tried updating BIOS to the latest revision but still doesn't seem to work.
During installation of proxmox i'm just using the default settings its on ext4 when installing & the install runs fine , but once it reboots it never comes up again , the only way to get it to boot is to use the rescue option on the installation boot media for proxmox. but i can't be booting it like that everytime.
And yes i know its likely GRUB just like every other article i've read mentions , but even if i boot from a live iso & perfom the mounting and then grub-update / grub-install , it doesn't work all the commands work fine and looks like its going to work , but on reboot it still wont boot.
My one concern is UEFI , i dont know much about it , but what i noticed is that i can install windows 7 / 8 / 10 on this machine just fine and from my understanding windows 10 uses UEFI to boot? I can also install other linux GRUB based installs like debian and fedora onto the drive and reboot and it boots just fine , but for some reason proxmox will not boot after being installed.
BTW : installation media is a CD-ROM / DVD because it doesn't seem to boot from USB on proxmox installer iso either , but other live iso's and installation media work just fine.
Proxmox Version: 5.2.1
Hard drive is 1TB Toshiba / but i have swapped for others and same problem.
When trying to install from USB Media:
I use rufus to make the Bootable Flash - ISO mode (DD mode doesn't register it as bootable).
but it gets to the mounting / un-mounting of something and doesn't seem to register the drive.
Hence i just went with using the Physical CD that i burnt from the proxmox ISO then use that and it works fine.
So from my diagnosis is that its not the Installation Media / Hard drive.
Does anyone have any ideas how to resolve this any help would be appreciated gladly TIA.
I also have this screenshot of how the partitions look after installing proxmox :
