upgraded R640 memory, now can't install linux OS

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militarymedic23

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in a brief summary, upgraded my R640 server from 128 to 196, but it was all 128 on one proc, then I spread it out so 3x 32gb sticks for each proc.
only issue I noticed was trying to boot my linux NUT VM. kept failing no matter what i tried.
simple config so I tried to re-install a ubuntu VM setup thinking something got jacked up in the auto power off.
I've tried 4x now and each time the installer fails. just gives options to report to cannical or restart installer.
I haven't dug too far into this but since the only change on the PVE server was doing 4x mods per proc to 3x to each proc, I'm really curious on what might have changed in the PVE setup that it doesn't like this.
I can open the chassis up and do 1-6 in a single setup, but I'm wanting to see what people can advise on how I have it setup now and what may be preventing a linux install.

Thanks
 
looked through the installer logs from that top option but I'm no linux guru so I'm not sure what I'm looking for other than something that obviously appears to be failing.
Saw one entry about NUMA not being available, so I enabled that. still failed.
was only .2 minor version off from the current server install, so I pulled down the latest but still failed.
In iDrac I saw log entries about memory found but not configurable. Only option I could see in bios was to set interleaving and those errors went away but install still failed.
PVE logs don't show anything obvious enough for me to notice.

Is there anything PVE needs to be adjusted for to account for the second processor having memory?
Only other thing I can think of is to remove the 2 extra sticks, put the 3rd back to proc 1 and test out VM install. if it works then load all memory back up on proc 1.
Seems like this is backwards in how the system should be functioning but I don't know what else to try or look at.

Also PVE memtest didn't show anything obvious. no failures/errors.

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I have exactly the same issue.
I'm trying to install ubuntu server 24.04.3 on a VM (64Go for disk / 6 cores for CPU / 8192MiB for memory)
I tried several iso (and sha256 is ok) but same issue.
I have a ubuntu 24.04 LXC running fine, I only have issue with VM...

Hardware: Minisforum N5 NAS
PVE 9.0.6
 
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I tried again this morning and my 24.04.3 ubuntu server VM is running.
As @Impact said, it seems related to repos issues.
During installation, there is a step to test repos access. The default one was laggy so I replaced it with the french one (fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu).
 
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Ah, interesting. When the installer got to the repo test page it did seem pretty slow.
One of the tests I did do was disabling all network access. I found a forum listing somewhere of another person getting the installation failed end result and they did an offline install, but that also failed for me.
 
militarymedic23 said:
One of the tests I did do was disabling all network access. I found a forum listing somewhere of another person getting the installation failed end result and they did an offline install, but that also failed for me.
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I tried this yesterday, it does not work.
Just add "fr." before archive.ubuntu.com/ during the installation and the installer will use french repos.
 
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