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    Freezing after CPU upgrade

    Hi all! Inexperienced user here I recently bought this HP Elitedesk 800 G2 to get into VMs and Proxmox, and out of the box it worked like a charm. However, I recently purchased a used i7-6700 and installed it (and upgraded the power supply to compensate), and now once I attempt to boot Proxmox...
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    Stuck On Loading Initial Ramdisk

    Hello everyone, I am trying out Proxmox for the first time. I recently installed the latest version off of the site for PVE and I cant get past "Loading initial ramdisk..." It kind of looks like it went through the process of loading the ramdisk but got stuck on whatever comes next, I attached a...
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    Trying to install PVE on Debian 11 with LUKS-crypt boot volume results in boot hang on "Loading initial ramdisk"

    I've now tried twice, with the process I'm using being a standard install of Debian 11 with an encrypted LVM, then following along the wiki guide to convert this install to PVE. Upon installing the pve-kernel, the system hangs on "loading initial ramdisk" on boot. So far I've tried both the...
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    Screen stuck at 'Loading initial ramdisk' but the system is working normally

    Hello, I am using PVE 7.3-1 with GPU Passthrough. It was booting well before. Recently I have made two modifications: 1. My server has one SSD and two HDDs. PVE is installed in SSD. Recently I installed Windows 10 in one of the HDDs. 2. Before my server has 32GB x 1 of memory. Recently I...
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    [SOLVED] PVE Fails to load past 'Loading initial ramdisk...'

    Hi! This morning my PVE server stopped booting correctly, seems like this happened after a restart or something on its own as it's on a UPS and I never restart it without ensuring it works after. I've followed some other posts on this same issue but none have resolved it. I believe im using...

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