Hey there I was attempting to install Harvester on a repurpo rancher-users #harvester

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worried-lighter-48308

06/12/2022, 11:49 PM

Hey there. I was attempting to install Harvester on a repurposed system earlier. During the install, I got to the network configuration screen. There, I set the host name, but when trying to move to the next config item (selecting the management NIC), the installer seeming resets to the screen asking me what type of install to use (create new cluster or joining existing). Any ideas what is going on or where I can look to try figure it out?

Couple of extra details if it helps. I was using a USB flash drive, flashed with harvester-v1.0.2-amd64 using Balena Etcher to flash.

I also tried using both UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes. UEFI the system hung (at least didn’t update the display after the bootloader showed up. So I moved on with legacy and that worked until the network config screen and the behavior described above.

System spec are as follows: • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (not quite at the 8 cores in the system reqs, I know) • 128 GBs RAM • 1x onboard 1GBE NIC • 1x PCI-E Intel based 2 port 1 GBE NIC • Plenty of disk options between 2.5" SSDs, m.2 NVMe SSDs and 3.5" magnetic disks. I feel like I meet the min requirements for the most part. The CPU is a hexacore with 12 threads, but the behavior of the install UI doesn’t seems like it would be doing that because of hardware it doesn’t like (unless it’s the NICs that it’s not seeing?)

witty-jelly-95845

06/13/2022, 3:42 PM

Have you seen https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.0/install/usb-install/#when-booting-from-a-usb-installation-flash-dr[…]-grub-_-text-is-displayed-but-nothing-happens

Could also be graphics issue as per https://github.com/harvester/harvester/issues/1873

worried-lighter-48308

06/13/2022, 3:52 PM

Thanks for the GitHub issue link. Exactly what is happening with my install. Such a weird bug. I’ll have to try the same clear CMOS thing. Just seems like that is way too random of a “fix” to actually work haha.

I am using a cheap, low powered Nvidia GPU (no integrated CPU on my mobo chipset and CPU combo) - I knew I should have gone AMD Radeon 😂

@witty-jelly-95845 - Thanks for pointing me in that direction. Worked without problems this time. So weird

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