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the install process went fine in BIOS mode!
And yes, the checksum is correct.

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@john-c

Yes, Sandisk USB Stick (Ventoy) in UEFI boot mode. I had also created a standard DVD ROM in ourder to exclude any differences in such a boot construct.

Did you verify that the checksums matched for the ISO you downloaded, before preparing the media?

The reason being any corruption in the downloaded image can affect the resulting media and their contents. So unexpected things can happen if the media or source media is corrupt, such as an in ability to complete the installation of OS software even at the final stage - boot manager installation.

Yes, Sandisk USB Stick (Ventoy) in UEFI boot mode. I had also created a standard DVD ROM in order to exclude any differences in such a boot construct.

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@john-c
PXE boot ROM for network boot. (Never used)

So SanDisk HD is the portable drive used or is it something else?

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@john-c
The system freezes and the last screenshots are above visible.

What's "IBA GE Slot 0100 v1371" it shows up as part of the boot menu load order, boot options from your EFI instance?

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@john-c

the Intel Bios (64) has already EFI support included, so I can select EFI to boot the install media and everything works fine until the step were the boot entries are created, which performs still correct, but with the EFI boot entries creation my install dies.

What does it say when it dies or logs when it does so?

the Intel Bios (64) has already EFI support included, so I can select EFI to boot the install media and everything works fine until the step were the boot entries are created, which performs still correct, but with the EFI boot entries creation my install dies.

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@john-c I know already that, bios was updated and it was easy to boot in UEFI but the install failed and even complains about not enough space on EFI boot part.
I tried after wiping all disks but could not perform the install all the way.
Either with SATA SSDs or NVMe (with an upgraded DELL backplane designed for NVMe) it never works.

SSD drives eventually fill and/or wear up so you eventually don't have enough space for data. Also if the amount of data needed for booting is larger than the size of EFI boot partition it will run out of space and complain.

Also how large is the OS drive's capacity is it large enough capacity to exceed the system requirements for XCP-ng? The OS drive gets partitioned according to a predetermined fixed structure so if the drive isn't large enough, then when partitioning it may make them too small.

@yann How large does XCP-ng make the EFI boot partition please, as for laurentm it may not be making it with sufficient size?

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@Ajmind-0 Same problem with DELL PowerEdge R820 and DELL PowerEdge R520:

I had to upgrade in BIOS mode and it was the same thing for a fresh install.

With DELL PowerEdge R240, no problem to upgfrade in UEFI.

You can switch to EFI mode in the BIOS setup of Dell PowerEdge R520 and Dell PowerEdge R820. I know this for sure as my home lab is based around a trio Dell PowerEdge R620 servers.

I found this out when navigating around the BIOS settings, specifically its in the Boot Mode options settings.

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@john-c
Intel Server (SR2625/S5520UR / Dual Xeon E5645)

If you can access from Intel with an account associated with the motherboard. There's a firmware update available which will add EFI (UEFI) mode support, but to enable it may require adjusting a bios setting. That EFI mode will highly likely or even definitely not include support for SecureBoot.

I had to upgrade in BIOS mode and it was the same thing for a fresh install.

With DELL PowerEdge R240, no problem to upgfrade in UEFI.

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@yann
Yes, it was a fresh install. I have removed any partition layout from the Hardware RAID1 via gparted before I have started from scratch.

The previous 8.2.1 install was also created in BIOS mode. For me it is clear that this old EFI Intel BIOS from 2012 lacks support for this kind of install process.

What model of Intel Server is it?

The previous 8.2.1 install was also created in BIOS mode. For me it is clear that this old EFI Intel BIOS from 2012 lacks support for this kind of install process.