(solved) Proxmox installation for Dell PowerEdge T310

[sasguard]

So I tried to install Proxmox on a Dell T310, and after installation, I got the GRUB command line. I have tried looking online, but I am getting nowhere. The server used PER6 with a RAID 5 (1 hot spare). The BIOS ver is 1.14, and Virtualization is Enabled.

Update: I just kept getting the Grub> CLI and realized that I would need to change UEFI to BIOS on my Dell PowerEdge T310, and it worked. I was able to get PROXMOX running and install VMs. Proxmox was unable to access the HD when it was under UEFI unless I was doing something wrong. I have a RAID 5, with 4 TB of data and 32 GIG of memory for my testing environment with Proxmox.

Please let me know if anyone cares to update or answer why this is not working under UEFI. However, on my other test, Dell Precision 5820, my PROXMOX was installed in UEFI with no issues.

 

[QwertySayZ]

So I tried to install Proxmox on a Dell T310, and after installation, I got the GRUB command line. I have tried looking online, but I am getting nowhere. The server used PER6 with a RAID 5 (1 hot spare). The BIOS ver is 1.14, and Virtualization is Enabled.

Update: I just kept getting the Grub> CLI and realized that I would need to change UEFI to BIOS on my Dell PowerEdge T310, and it worked. I was able to get PROXMOX running and install VMs. Proxmox was unable to access the HD when it was under UEFI unless I was doing something wrong. I have a RAID 5, with 4 TB of data and 32 GIG of memory for my testing environment with Proxmox.

Please let me know if anyone cares to update or answer why this is not working under UEFI. However, on my other test, Dell Precision 5820, my PROXMOX was installed in UEFI with no issues.

I had a extremely similar issue with a R720, the raid card was the culprit for me, and I believe it had the h710?

When I did get Proxmox up and running I found that even though the 8 front hdd bays were hot-swap, I couldn't actually remove any of them and still keep Proxmox intact. Example: I removed all but the 1Tb SSD I used for the Proxmox install then after install I powered down and put the 6, 2TB 7200 sas drives back in and inside the Raid controller management I found and mounted the new drives. It's put them into 2 sets of raid 10s and booted into Proxmox fine. I wanted to simulate a failed drive so I removed a hot swap drive and Proxmox was fine but I was unable to access either raid 10 arrays. So I powered down and popped the drive back in and on reboot I greeted with the grub line and a corrupted PVE.

All my research lead me to the raid card being the issue and apparently no actual long term solution. Did you have this issue ever?