A friend recently purchased a certain brand of N100 mini PC, excitedly inserted 16GB DDR5 4800 RAM and a cheap NVMe drive, ready to install Proxmox. However, he was quickly met with some setbacks.

Initially, he used the Debian 11 netboot option. After connecting to the router for DHCP and completing the system installation, he followed the Proxmox official instructions to install the PVE 5.15 kernel, then rebooted. After rebooting, the system got stuck at “loading ramdisk” and wouldn’t proceed. After several failed attempts, he decided to use the official Proxmox ISO to install, but this led to another issue. When attempting to boot the ISO and enter the graphical installer, it appeared that the graphical interface wouldn’t start. After researching online, he found that the graphical interface needed to be manually started.

The solution is as follows:

1. First, follow the prompt and press CTRL+ALT+F2 to switch to a different console. Wait for a while, then press CTRL+ALT+F1 to return to the previous screen.

2. Once back on the first screen, wait for the command line to show “root@proxmox”, and then proceed with the following steps.

3. Type “cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d”  

   Then, open the “00-intel.conf” file with:  

   “nano 00-intel.conf”

4. Press CTRL+Z to exit the nano editor temporarily, and then use “lspci” to list all PCI devices. Look for the VGA information.

5. You should see the device listed as “00:02.0”.

6. Now, press fg to return to the nano editor, then edit the file with the following:

Section “Device”

Identifier “Card0”

Driver “fbdev”

BusID “pci0:00:0:2:”

EndSection

7. Press CTRL+O to save, then CTRL+X to exit the editor.

8. Finally, type the following command in the terminal to start the Proxmox installer:

xinit — -dpi 96 > /dev/tty2 2>&1

This perfectly resolves the issue.