I had a Dell Poweredge 2950 that had been faithfully running proxmox 1.9 (upgraded from 1.7, to 1.8, finally to 1.9) for about a year now. I finally got enough time – and pestered other people about moving their virtual machines to other servers – in order to redo the machine with additional RAM and Prox2.3<\/p>\n
So I upgraded the server from 16GB to 32GB – DDR2FB so… – and attempted to boot off the ISO Prox 2.3 image.<\/p>\n
As this is a 2950 and not say an R520, the DRAC (not idrac) is pretty much useless – even with the “enterprise” level, it’s bare bones at best. The newer idrac systems (drac6, 7+) are all much better for remote management. As such, I had a monitor and keyboard plugged into this server on my workbench.<\/p>\n
Prox displays and says “hit enter to boot”. Hit enter. Screen gets all fuzzy – digitally – and I can’t actually see anything to proceed. Reboot. This time I put in some arguments: Detecting network settings … done Reboot Well this is going nowhere fast. Aha! I see the BIOS was 2.2.6 and the newest release is 2.7.0 – this may be the problem. Grab my trusty USB drive and format for DOS\/win98 bootable, put the BIOS flashing executable on the drive, boot off the USB and update the BIOS.<\/p>\n Same issue. Argh.<\/p>\n I attempted the debug vga=normal again, only this time instead of rebooting I decided to check out the \/var\/log area and see if anything was posted.<\/p>\n There was an Xorg log file – it was the only log file in there – and I found some interesting stuff:<\/p>\n XF86OpenConsole setsidfailed operation not permitted Great. Just on a whim, since I’ve seen the digitally Xorg screens from my past experience with FBSD, I decide to try a different monitor.<\/p>\n Eureka! The problem was my 19″ LCD was being read by Xorg as something not compatible with the currently loaded drivers. I ended up using a spare 15″ LCD and it booted right up.<\/p>\n TL:DR Keep a small LCD around for certain linux experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a Dell Poweredge 2950 that had been faithfully running proxmox 1.9 (upgraded from 1.7, to 1.8, finally to 1.9) for about a year now. I finally got enough time – and pestered other people about moving their virtual machines to other servers – in order to redo the machine with additional RAM and … Continue reading Proxmox 2.x Installation Woes PE2950<\/span>
\ndebug vga=normal<\/code><\/p>\n
\n\\nInstallation aborted – unable to continue (type EXIT or CTRL-D to reboot)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\ndebug vga=normal noacpi<\/code>
\nSame issue – unable to continue<\/p>\n
\nopen ACPI failed – file not found<\/p><\/blockquote>\n