I am trying to put together a minirack and for the hell of it forcing myself to learn/use proxmox. I installed Proxmox in an optiplex and GMKtec NUC no problem. I assembled this Mini-ITX pc to put in the miniserver and everything was fine until it got to the end of proxmox install, “make system bootable” and the system dies(reboot after install is unchecked). BIOS doesn’t see it as a boot drive but does see it on the NVMe config screen.
Proxmox install sees the M.2 drive on /dev/nvme0n1 and it looks fine. I took the drive out of a dead laptop. tried just installing Linux Debian, also crashes at the end of install.
after attempting all the following, results the same:
Used diskpart on it and cleared the drive
I reflashed proxmox ISO on usb
turned off secure boot
updated motherboard BIOS to 3.30
used a different M.2 drive
SATA mode on AHCI
At this point I feel like it has something motherboard related?? because the result is the same with two different drives.
Specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
ASRock B650I Lightning Wifi Mini ITX AM5 Motherboard
Crucial Pro 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR5-5600 PC5-44800 CL46 Dual Channel
M.2 drive AirDisk 512gb
This is my first post so feel free to lmk if I posted this in the wrong place or something. Any advice or further questions about the system is welcome.
Try installing on a SATA drive. HDD is OK for testing, SSD if you want to keep the install. Remove the NVMe drive completely.
Use a LiveCD distro (Ubuntu, Sys-rescue, etc) to create the partitions on the NVMe drive prior to installing ProxMox.
Are you sure the drive actually has the capacity it claims to have? Cheap Aliexpress drives often are less then what they’ve been sold for (4TB SSD for 40 bucks? You wish! )
HTH!
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I tried installing it on a SATA drive and my daughter distracted me before it got to the end but I’m assuming it crashed because the system is off and it’s not bootable. After kid bedtime I will try #2
Does ANY linux installer crash at the same step, or just proxmox? Easiest place to start.
To get more specific about it, is your motherboard in UEFI or CSM / Legacy mode? Is Proxmox installing legacy grub or something UEFI compatible like systemd? Is the drive being formatted with an MBR or GPT partition table? Not familiar enough with Proxmox to know off the top of my head.
I had a similar issue recently. I updated my bios and reinstalled Fedora on my system and it kept freezing during the install. I disabled expo on my memory and have not had an issue since. I did not have issue with the previous bios that I was using. I have not tried troubleshooting the issue any further at the moment as I have not had the time. My system has a AMD 7950x3d, MSIX670E MAG mono, and 96 gb of gskill memory (2x48). Just something to check.
I have tried also installing Linux Debian and Linux Mint. had simliar problems. Mint wouldn’t even pass the spinner logo at the begining of install. tried regular install. tried OEM install whatever that is. All these on a SATA drive. not NVMe. I still haven’t tried Dutch_Master’s suggestion of creating the partitions on a liveCD distro.
The motherboard is UEFI and it’s a GPT partition.
I’ll also lookinto this expo setting for the memory after work today
I was impatient and just looked into the expo thing now and I see with some googling it’s a memory profile. mine was set to AUTO but I set it to the first one that wasn’t expo and same thing is happening.
Only lead I have right now is creating the partition outside of the install like @Dutch_Master said. I’ll do it later today.
Bought a brand new SSD so i’m not reusing any drive. the partitions are configured correctly. still not letting me install proxmox/debian/mint.
a friend of a friend said “might be a mismatch between the UEFI vs the BIOS bootloader” and told me to try install to proxmox 7. I had zero hopes for this to work. after an initial error starting installation relating to a graphics driver that i figured out with some googling it ACTUALLY PASSED “make system bootable” and i see the sweet sweet words of “Installation successful!”
Worst case scenario I can live with this but is there something i can do to fix this to install proxmox 8?
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