Raspberry Pi 5 16GB¶

My Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is being used as another arm64 Proxmox server.

Config¶

Enable PCIe¶

echo "dtparam=pciex1_gen=3" | sudo tee -a config.txt

echo "dtparam=pciex1" | sudo tee -a config.txt

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

dtparam=pciex1

Enable auto detection PCIe and booting from NVMe¶

rpi-eeprom-config --edit

sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

PCIE_PROBE=1

BOOT_ORDER=0xf416

The 6 means to enable booting from nvme. Reboot Raspberry Pi 5 and try to use lsblk or lspci -vvv to get more details of the PCIe device.

Enable 5A PSU¶

If apt is slow, it might be due to the pi reducing the power input.

rpi-eeprom-config --edit

sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

PSU_MAX_CURRENT=5000

Set Resolution¶

When using a TV as a temporary monitor, usually when troubleshooting the booting from a USB or NVMe drive, the text size can be way too small. This is how to change the resolution on boot of the command line so that it can be read more easily on the TV.

sed -i `1s/$/ video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D/' /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt

video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D

Proxmox¶

Setup LVM first

Setup Raspberry Pi OS.¶

cd "$(mktemp -d)"

wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2024-11-19/2024-11-19-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz -O 2024-11-19-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz

xz -d 2024-11-19-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz

dd if=2024-11-19-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img /dev/mmcblk0 status=progress

(
  [ -d /media/sd ] || mkdir /media/sd
  sudo mount -a /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/sd
)

cd /media/sd

Create Username & Password¶

echo 'nicholas:' "$(openssl passwd -6)" | sed 's/ //g' | sudo tee -a userconf.txt

nicholas:<hash>

Enable SSH¶

touch ssh

Kernel Page Size¶

You should use the Kernel with 4K pagesize

kernel=kernel8.img # to end of line

CT Notes¶

Is the container summary memory usage and swap usage always shows 0?

sed -i '1s/$/ cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1/' cmdline.txt

cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_enable=memory cgroup_memory=1

Unmount SD card, plug into the Raspberry Pi and boot

Proxmox Installation¶

Log into the Raspberry Pi using SSH.

sudo su root

passwd

Add an /etc/hosts entry for your IP address.

Please make sure that your machine's hostname is resolvable via /etc/hosts, i.e. you need an entry in /etc/hosts which assigns an address to its hostname.

Make sure that you have configured one of the following addresses in /etc/hosts for your hostname:

1 IPv4 or 1 IPv6 or 1 IPv4 and 1 IPv6

hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'

For instance, if your IP address is 192.168.15.77, and your hostname prox4m1, then your /etc/hosts file could look like:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost

::1             localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
ff02::2         ip6-allrouters

192.168.1.192   pve02.nicholaswilde.io pve02

hostname --ip-address

192.168.1.192

Install Proxmox VE¶

Add the Proxmox VE repository¶

echo 'deb [arch=arm64] https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pve bookworm port'>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pveport.list

https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pve bookworm port

curl -L https://mirrors.apqa.cn/proxmox/debian/pveport.gpg -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pveport.gpg 

apt update && apt full-upgrade

apt install ifupdown2 proxmox-ve postfix open-iscsi

Configure packages which require user input on installation according to your needs (e.g. Samba asking about WINS/DHCP support). If you have a mail server in your network, you should configure postfix as a satellite system, your existing mail server will then be the relay host which will route the emails sent by the Proxmox server to their final recipient.

If you don't know what to enter here, choose local only and leave the system name as is.

Reenable SSH¶

sudo sed -i 's/^#?\s*PermitRootLogin\s+.*/PermitRootLogin yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

PermitRootLogin yes

Finally, you can connect to the admin web interface (https://youripaddress:8006).

Network¶

Missing vmbr0¶

<node> -> Network -> Create
Name: vmbr0
IPv4: 192.168.1.192/24
Gateweay: 192.168.1.1 
Bridge Ports: eth0

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.2.192/24
        gateway 192.168.2.1
        bridge-ports eth0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

Where eth0 is the current existing network interface

Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '' to '10.0' Error¶

apt --allow-releaseinfo-change update

Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts¶

(
  bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/misc/update-repo.sh)" &&
  bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/main/misc/post-pve-install.sh)"
)

Swap¶

The Raspberry Pi uses dphys-swapfile to manage it's swap.

For Proxmox, I'm using a logical volume instead of a swap file.

Change Swap Size¶

free -h

dphys-swapfile swapoff

CONF_SWAPSIZE=2048

(
  dphys-swapfile setup
  dphys-swapfile swapon
)

free -h

Disable Permanently¶

dphys-swapfile swapoff

systemctl stop dphys-swapfile

systemctl disable dphys-swapfile

rm /var/swap

LVM¶

See LVM.

References¶

• https://a.co/d/etvDazc