[SOLVED] Clean boot stuck at EFI stub: Loaded initrd ....

[jaykavathe]

I have a 3 node cluster, 3 identical Dell R630s. All were running Proxmox7 and eventually updated them to 8 ... all good.
Having played with stuff, decided upgrade storage, and do a clean installation on 3.
Got dell bios/idrac updated on all etc.

Now 2 of my nodes got installation done smoothly but my primary node is stuck at:
"EFI stub: Loaded initrd from LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path"

Somewhere I read that I can get old proxmox installed and upgraded to 8. Is that the only way? Wondering why this perticular node is stuck when they all are identical?

 

[argentum]

Same issue.. but the strange part this is failing in the second install. I installed first in a pair of nvme to test and all worked well. A few days later, I decided to make a new installation in a pair of SSDs with the intention of using the fast nvem for zfs cache. But the new installation is not booting. I did use the same USB with the exact ISO image. In both cases I did the same setup with zfsa raid1 for boot.

I get this message but also a second line:
"EFI stub: Loaded initrd from LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID device path"
"EFI stub: Measured initrd data into PCR 3"

Not sure what else to do. I swapped back to the NVME and it stated OK. I had not paid attention before, but this error does pop in the first install. But after 2 seconds it continues to boot.

 

[jaykavathe]

I actually found my issue. The drives had old zpool from previous installation on them.
I loaded gparted live boot, wiped everything clean and then had no issue at all.

Also pretty much everytime, adding "nomodeset" to launch params is helping me.