
and zeroing the disks (disk wipe was probably unnecessary but easy enough to do at bed time and leave overnight)
Started fresh with defaulting the BIOS, iDRAC, etc. Here's what I went through FWIW:Īfter many repeat install failures and messing with a ton of settings I decided to reset everything back to defaults and try again. although it seems pretty hit-or-miss with Dell R-series (20/30 gen). Posting my experience in case anyone else is having the same issues. Storage Controller: No dedicated card (onboard SATA in AHCI mode) Proxmox 7.2.1 on Dell R620 with UEFI boot available on both disks. (grub, efi)ĭo you have any suggestions as to how I should install a fail-safe and high-performance system or what could be causing the error. I'm not so sure about the LVM volume anymore.īut now it fails because of the installation of the bootloader. (If the power fails for a longer period of time) (UPS is available and H710 mini is equipped with a battery).Įxt4 shouldn't have any problems with a RAID volume. That is why I thought about using hardware RAID-1 without cach functions. I have a couple of H710 mini controllers at home and could also replace them should it break. data recovery in case something really goes wrong. But I don't know what the performance and data security looks like, e.g. I know that Proxmox v7.0.1 now also supports btrfs and know the theoretical advantages.
I know I could flash the H710 mini in IT mode and use ZFS-RAID-1 but I don't want to because of the performance and the massive RAM consumption. I also tested it with debian v10 the same error.Īs soon as the installation is finished and tries to write the bootloader, this error occurred (Failed to Prepare UEFI Boot) I have test wise times Win Server 2016 installed in uefi mode under ntfs no problems I have a problem with the installation of Proxmox v7.0.1 in UEFI mode on a Dell R320 server with ext4 file systemĭell Perc H710 mini (Original Firmware) (non-IT-Mode) 2xSSD 250GB Samsung Pro RAID-1 (Element Size 256Kb, Read Policy Adaptive, Write Policy write through)