Proxmox wont boot. Not sure where to start

[TheJM]

Easiest would be entire folder, ensure's you do not miss anything relevant and also get the storage config, which let's you also start a bit faster after the reinstallation.

For a single standalone node, I'd in all cases save and restore (single node only!)

/etc/pve/qemu-server/*.conf
/etc/pve/lxc/*.conf
# storage cfg
/etc/pve/storage.cfg

# backup jobs
/etc/pve/vzdump.cron

# firewall rules/options
/etc/pve/firewall/*.fw

Thanks, will let you know how it goes. Thanks for all your help.

 

[TheJM]

I was able to find and copy recent backups of the VMs and the /etc folder off of my rpool to another storage medium but am having a weird bug with the other 2 pools.

After importing the other 2 pools I ran zpool list and it reported 3 pools and each pool containing the appropriate amount of data (for example my 'Bucket' pool has 93.5Gb of data and is 40% full. But when I try and cd to the mount point of the pool, it has no files in it. its completely empty. Also when I run df -h it says the pools are 1% full.

Screenshot.

I ran a zdb -C -h Bucket and it came back with this (notice the last line, not sure if that is significant)

Screenshot 2

How do I get the file structure to show up?

 

[fabian]

looks like your datasets are not mounted. zfs mount -a should mount all datasets that are set to auto-mount.

 

[TheJM]

looks like your datasets are not mounted. zfs mount -a should mount all datasets that are set to auto-mount.

Well the puzzle just keeps getting more complicated.
Now my server won’t boot into Proxmox via USB. It was working fine but when I rebooted one time, i selected Debug mode from the grub screen and it gets stuck at this screen here every time.

I tried re-flashing the usb drive with proxmox 6.1 again from a new download, tried a new flash drive and a new USB port.
Really confused now.

 

[fabian]

does it finish if you wait longer?

 

[TheJM]

does it finish if you wait longer?

I left it for a few minutes and it didnt do anything. I can wait longer if necessary. It hadn't done that before so I figured it was stuck.

 

[TheJM]

I left it for a few minutes and it didnt do anything. I can wait longer if necessary. It hadn't done that before so I figured it was stuck.

SO im basically in data recovery mode now. I could never get Proxmox to boot after many attempts from multiple flash drives but I was able to get FreeNAS to boot. I chose it simply because it has ZFS support and thought I can use it to recover my data. I installed it on a second flash drive connected to the server and booted to it. After doing so I was able to import my ZFS pools, and managed to find the data from the pools. The data isn't in /poolname/data its in /dev/zvol/poolname/data.

Can someone please educate me on how I can get the data from the /zvol/poolname location? These seem to be treated as a volume maybe so I can't go inside it?

I also need to figure out how to mount an external hard drive to FreeNAS so I have somewhere to copy the files to.

 

[fabian]

not an expert for freebsd's ZFS implementation, but you should be able to mount regular filesystem datasets just like under Linux. maybe you need an explicit "zfs mount" ?

 

[TheJM]

not an expert for freebsd's ZFS implementation, but you should be able to mount regular filesystem datasets just like under Linux. maybe you need an explicit "zfs mount" ?

Just wanted to give y’all an update.
I am using 2 m1215 HBA cards in IT mode to connect my drives and it seems that Proxmox has decided it doesn’t like those anymore. I tried booting with and without the cards connected and the Proxmox usb booted fine without the cards connected and ironically it booted fine a few times after I connected the cards back again but then stopped booting again.

I tried Proxmox 5.4 and 6.1 and both wouldn’t boot With the cards connected. (as described above)
I then tried Freenas and Hyper-V. Both booted fine.

Not sure where to go from here as I can’t find anything wrong with my cards - all drives are showing up.
Ps these have been working fine for a year. Then all of a sudden took a dump and wouldn’t boot. Then wouldn’t even boot from install usb.

 

[superviper]

Hi I have a problem with the old laptop Lenovo G50-30 to boot after installation. This is how I resolved the issue.

1. Once you see the blue selection table press e to edit commands before booting.
2. change root=dev/mapper pve-root ro quiet to root=dev/mapper pve-root ro quiet nomodeset
3. press ctrl+x
4. login
5. modprobe -r snd_hda_intel (thats stop accidental reboot with hdaudio error)
6. nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf add line blacklist snd_hda_intel (ctrl+o to write and ctlr+x to exit)
7. nano /etc/default/grub
8. change line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet nomodeset"
9. update-grub
10. shutdown -r now

I would appreciate for feedback if this helps anybody save time.