Support for nuc 11

[mabi87]

Hi,

I tried to install proxmox (6.3) on nuc 11 but it failed.
Are there any plans to support the latest nuc gen?

Kind regards
Maik

 

[tom]

Should work, please provide details about your issue.

 

[mabi87]

Thanks for your fast reply. The issue seems to be related with the iwlwifi firmware.

I tried to install the package by adding "non-free" to /etc/apt/sources.list and executing

chmod 1777 /tmp
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

afterwards I was rebooting the server with ctrl-d which brings me again to the installation page, but here I'm getting the same error and my changes seems to be reverted.



Kind regards
Maik

 

[mabi87]

After digging deeper into this I found out that PVE is using linux kernel 5.4 which doesn't support Iris XE. For this reason the Xorg server doesn't start up and I couldn't install it.

 

[tom]

You can try a 5.11 kernel, if the kernel is the blocker here.

> apt install pve-kernel-5.11

 

[t.lamprecht]

apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi

Please avoid that, those firmware files are provided by the pve-firmware package in a more recent version already.

 

[bleomycin]

Did the 5.11 kernel work? I'm considering a nuc 11 purchase but proxmox working is a requirement.

 

[mabi87]

I manged to install kernel 5.11, but is there a possibility to resume the installation from the shell? On restart all my changes are gone. Some other thoughs:

• Is there some kind of proxmox image builder I can use to incorperate those kernel change (like in esxi)?
• Do you guys have a beta repo with kernel 5.11?
• Otherwise I have to install promox on debian: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster

 

[mabi87]

Did the 5.11 kernel work? I'm considering a nuc 11 purchase but proxmox working is a requirement.

Still not working ... It might be with Kernel 5.11 but at the moment it is definitely not in a "works out of the box" state

 

[Petersilie]

Hi,

I managed to install it on my new NUC 11 Pro NUC11TNHv5 with the help from this description (https://www.rpiathome.com/2020/10/21/proxmox-6-2-1-installation-fails-after-dhcp-lease-obtained/)

1.) Boot ISO from USB
The installer may be unable to start. Then do the following steps:

2.) Error correction
– Switch to TTY3 (ALT+F3)
– Upgrade the system:
###
$ chmod 1777 /tmp
$ apt update
$ apt upgrade
###

Then I also installed the new 5.11 Kernel with adding deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pvetest to /etc/apt/sources.list:
apt install pve-kernel-5.11

– Reconfigure Xorg:
###
$ Xorg -configure
$ mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
$ nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
###
# update Driver from “amdgpu” or what else to “fbdev” in all sections (in my case only one occurence)

3.) Restart Proxmox installer
– Switch back to TTY1 (ALT+F1)
– Wait until the installer stopped with error (unable to continue…)
– Restart the installer with the new Xorg configuration:
$ startx

After that the installation continued and I could reboot into proxmox. There I also installed the new kernel and rebooted. Till now all is fine and the first VM was migrated from my J5005 NUC.

Best regards,
Michael

 

[mabi87]

Hi,

meanwhile I was able to install it on debian bullseye using the 5.11 Kernel from here: https://github.com/fabianishere/pve-edge-kernel.

Kind regards
Maik

 

[kevo.]

Then I also installed the new 5.11 Kernel with adding deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pvetest to /etc/apt/sources.list:
apt install pve-kernel-5.11

Hi Petersilie, I'm struggeling at this part Can you explain it to me with more details, please? Thanks alot!

kevo

 

[Petersilie]

Hi kevo,

seems I described two steps in one.

To add the test packages to your sources edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list with

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and add

deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pvetest

at the end of the file. Press Crtl+o to save the file and Crtl+x to leave nano.

With

apt install pve-kernel-5.11

you can now install the required kernel.

Hope this helps.

 

[Dunuin]

And don't forget to run apt update after adding a new repository or "apt install" can't use the new repo.

 

[kevo.]

Hi kevo,

seems I described two steps in one.

To add the test packages to your sources edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list with

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and add

deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster pvetest

at the end of the file. Press Crtl+o to save the file and Crtl+x to leave nano.

With

apt install pve-kernel-5.11

you can now install the required kernel.

Hope this helps.

Mr. Petersilie, thank you very much for the detailed instruction. Unfortunately I wasnt able to get the kernel 5.11 installed. Gave me some errors. So i skipped that part.
I found another instruction just like yours a couple weeks ago. I was just to blind to see, that yours are the same steps.

I found an ISO file with the 5.11 kernel, created an USB stick, bootet it and as soon as the graphic card get check, i cant get a signal. I tried to stop the "driver check" process before the install beginns but it wont work.

hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec

Thats the last that shows on the screen before signal goes out. No more actions possible.


When I install version 6.4 with the 5.4 kernel and do the steps like you said make the Nuc bootable. After installing kernel 5.11 same errors and no display.... strange right?