[SOLVED] Can't Boot: efi stub loaded..

[soapee01]

This was a clean install of proxmox 8 on a Dell PowerEdge T130. When I try and boot the upgraded kernel (6.5.11-7-pve) I get stuck at:

efi stub loaded initrd from linux_efi_initrd_media_guid device path

I can boot from kernel 6.2.16-20-pve.

Anyone have any ideas on this? It seems to be a not so uncommon issue, but there's no real fix I've been able to find.

 

[soapee01]

I did try this based on another thread, but it did not resolve the issue for me.

echo simplefb >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules update-initramfs -k all -u proxmox-boot-tool refresh

 

[soapee01]

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 8th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x8) (rev 07)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Thermal Controller (rev 10)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH USB 3.1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 10)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Shared SRAM (rev 10)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller (rev 10)
00:16.4 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH HECI Controller #2 (rev 10)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SATA AHCI Controller (rev 10)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f0)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH PCI Express Root Port #2 (rev f0)
00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH Serial IO UART Host Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH SPI Controller (rev 10)
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3008 [Fury] (rev 02)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: PLDA PCI Express Bridge (rev 02)
04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. Integrated Matrox G200eW3 Graphics Controller (rev 04)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe

 

[soapee01]

I tried turning off IPMI on LAN, but that didn't fix it.

There seems to be more info here, but not solutions: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pve-8-0-and-8-1-hangs-on-boot.137033/

Runing this for now as a band-aid, so I don't accidentally boot a 6.5 kernel.

pve-efiboot-tool kernel pin 6.2.16-20-pve

 

[soapee01]

From: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/pve-8-0-and-8-1-hangs-on-boot.137033/

Hi guys, I found that if you disable x2APIC in BIOS under processor configuration it works fine with the new kernel. It seems that the problem is related with how the new kernel handles multi threading but because R240 is a one cpu server this option is not needed for me at least.

Fixed my issue.

proxmox-boot-tool kernel unpin

 

[repectoss]

I did try this based on another thread, but it did not resolve the issue for me.

echo simplefb >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
update-initramfs -k all -u
proxmox-boot-tool refresh

6.5.11-4-pve - resolved and proxmox started!