[SOLVED] PVE 8.3 ISO install failing with kernel panic. How to grab logs and troubleshoot?

[krby]

I'm trying to install PVE 8.3 from ISO (written to an SD card and booting from USB SD card reader) and having a ton of trouble. I've got an old GTX 710 card for video which I guess causes problems so I figured out I had to add `nomodeset` the the boot options. I'm booting in terminal mode with debug. But now, the installer is getting a kernel panic further along. Is there an easy way to grab the logs and post here? Or, am I stuck with just taking pictures of the screen?

I considered doing the Debian installer first, then installing PVE via apt, but I really liked the idea of booting from ZFS (pair of 1TB SSDs will be my boot drives) and from a little research, it looks like that may be hard to setup and keep in sync Debian directly.


I've got fairly modern desktop hardware, AMD Zen2 CPU, ASUS ROG motherboard with an Intel I225-V NIC.

Looking for advice on how to easily gather the kernel dump text, or how to proceed. Maybe I don't need the mirrored boot? Or don't need ZFS for boot devices?

 

[krby]

Or....I guess nevermind for now. I tried again, the only thing I changed was moving the USB/SDcard reader to an on-motherboard USB port instead of having it on the front panel. Install is going now.

 

[Maximiliano]

Hello,

You can use `journalctl` to read the system logs.

Note that we highly recommend using SSD/HDDs disks for the operative system, Enterprise SSDs if possible. A SDcard will probably fail sooner than later.

 

[krby]

Note that we highly recommend using SSD/HDDs disks for the operative system, Enterprise SSDs if possible. A SDcard will probably fail sooner than later.

Totally agree. The USB SD card reader was my installation method. OS is a zfs mirror on two consumer SSDs. This is a home install, so hopefully they'll last an ok amount of time. For the PVE OS drives, should I be using something besides ZFS?

 

[Maximiliano]

The OS on a ZFS mirror consisting of consumer SSDs should be perfectly fine and I don't see why they would not last for a long time. For VM storage we highly recommend enterprise grade SSDs though.