Video problems preventing installation of PMVE 1.8

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astrostl

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Hardware: Dell Precision T5400n (NVS290 video) + 24" 1920x1200 monitor.

Standard boots yield an "Undefined video mode number: 317" message. I've tried prompting through and selecting various standard video modes (80x25, 640x480, 800x600, etc.) and it pushes through to a garbled, rolling video screen:

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I've tried the debug boot flags at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation . If I use mem=512 it will halt at "Booting the kernel" before the video problems occur, but every combination of the others I've tried yields the same thing.

Is there a textmode installation, or does anyone have a suggestion other than changing video cards?

Thanks!
 
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OK, I did the following

Code: 
echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian lenny pve" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O- "http://download.proxmox.com/debian/key.asc" | apt-key add -
aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude install pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve
reboot

[[ $(uname -a) =~ pve ]] && aptitude -y install proxmox-ve-2.6.32 ntp ssh lvm2
And it seems to work. Fair amount of things jumping out for me already, though:

- I'm presuming that there isn't a textmode install, but failure to install by default is a concern
- My initial install is "not supported from the Proxmox support team and therefore only for expert use"
- I don't know what "enough free space for snapshots" specifically means

The page also suggests that I configure vmbr0, but I don't know how PVE wants it configured. I'll look that up on the wiki, but my initial impressions are pretty negative for doing a mass-rollout of this software.

Thank you for the prompt and helpful response, though! I'll keep evaluating.
 
Couple other things:

- The system sometimes needs a reboot to load the Intel VT kernel module (it's already enabled in the BIOS)
- The default Apache config has a warning: "The Alias directive in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/pve.conf at line 44 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias."

If the VT module isn't enabled, a reboot usually gets it. Could this be a race condition with a pve service?
 
astrostl said:
Couple other things:

- The system sometimes needs a reboot to load the Intel VT kernel module (it's already enabled in the BIOS)
- The default Apache config has a warning: "The Alias directive in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/pve.conf at line 44 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias."

If the VT module isn't enabled, a reboot usually gets it. Could this be a race condition with a pve service?
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Hi,
about the VT-kernel module: normaly this work without any trouble. Is your bios up to date?
If you have pve on a single disk, you can also install proxmox directly on this harddisk on another computer. Swap the disk and remove the nic-entrys from /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.
Reboot and all should work.

Udo
 
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