My laptop won't start when I try to run it on a live USB after installing Proxmox.
My laptop won't start when I try to run it on a live USB after installing Proxmox.
I have an old HP laptop that is 4 or 5 years old, and I put Proxmox server software on it. Now I want to change the operating system again, but I cannot boot from a live USB stick. My BIOS comes from Insyde with version F02. To start up, I had to turn off "secure boot" so the Proxmox installer would work. When I turned it back on and tried other options, nothing worked. Some people say that CSM settings can cause trouble, but this laptop's BIOS doesn't have a setting for CSM. After selecting the live USB from my boot menu, it won't start up, and when I plug that same USB into a different Windows computer, it disappears completely. The USB is only recognized on a MacBook if I format it right now. Basically, the laptop is broken at this point. What can I do to fix it? Please help me out of this mess. I am not sure where else I should post this question.
It seems your USB drive was broken or had too many bad sectors, and it kept crashing when trying to start up the laptop. This messed up the data and turned that drive into something useless. If this drives still works on Macs though, it might have been locked to APFS format, which means it will never work again in a different computer. Your best move is to buy a brand new USB drive from a reliable place and use a normal PC to set up any operating system you want, then boot your laptop using that new drive instead.
I've tried using several USB flash drives, but they all failed in the same way. I tried formatting them for FAT on my Mac, then mounting a live ISO onto another one on my PC. It looked like the drives were fine after all.
What do you want to put in? I am confused because you said you were already running something and now try to swap it out. But what exactly are you changing it for?
I installed Proxmox software, not operating system like Windows or Linux. (I also asked on their forum but no one responded). When it starts up, you only see a command line where you can log in. My laptop had Windows before I put this server stuff on top of it. Now I want to install a Linux distro here. I used an ISO for G-Parted and one for Debian, created the bootable USB with Rufus, checked the delete option when making the drive.
Rufus is not the best tool for making an Ubuntu ISO image. Instead of Rufus, I would use Unetbootin to create those images.
Are you trying to install or run a live distro? They can need two different things, and running a live distro is usually slow because it uses the USB stick for both booting and storage. Installation takes a long, complicated process that depends on your system setup and ISO file.
I used "live" iso to start up and then chose install. It worked perfectly before when I just ran it from my old computer. The Proxmox UI looks very simple, almost like a command line, but you can type things like reboot or shutdown there too. If you only use that interface to get in the BIOS, nothing else happens until you log out. When I tried to boot up the machine using the USB drive right now, it immediately said something went seriously wrong. That error message appears as if it came straight from the Proxmox screen itself. It happens instantly when I pick the USB as my boot option, which makes no sense because nothing should be happening before that point. It feels like Proxmox is controlling everything instead of letting me control it normally.