Installation Tips
The following notes are my own writeup for a PVE installation using a Ventoy bootable medium.
Prerequisites
Before installing anything on the target machine, ensure that:
- You have downloaded the official Proxmox VE installation medium;
- You have a copy of the official documentation at hand;
- Your machine is connected to an Ethernet network;
- Your machine is connected to an external display;
- You have plugged a keyboard to your machine.
Installation media
Expected scenario
If you plan to flash a bootable pen drive, refer to the corresponding paragraph of the installation documentation, boot into the live CD, and follow the instructions of the documentation and installer.
Lovely Kernel Panic after installation with Ventoy
Ventoy behaves weirdly upon installing Proxmox VE,
causing grub to add
rdinit=/vtoy/vtoy at the end of the kernel command line, and an early Kernel Panic.
To bypass this, after having completed the installation and rebooted,
first press e in the grub OS selection menu.
Navigate to the line containing this pattern and erase it.
Press ^X to continue the boot process, login as root, and delete the file /etc/default/grub.d/installer.cfg.
Rebuild the grub configuration using the command grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
Everything should now work as intended, meaning you can proceed with the next step: Post-Installation Setup.