Debugging boot issues

anderstn

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I just swapped my motherboard and CPU (from a second gen Ryzen on a B350, with an up to date BIOS, to a third gen on a B550 motherboard) and I was expecting some boot issues, but I'm struggling to see exactly what fails during boot. I tried following this guide: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/boot-troubleshooting-verbose-output.155631/ to get a more verbose output during boot but removing "quiet" does not seem to make a difference.

As far as were I'm getting stuck i manage to reach the loading initial ramdisk stage. Here the process just gets stuck seemingly forever. In other oddities the ramdisk image won't boot because of some signature issue and trying to open the UEFI boot options menu choice causes the computer to restart. Can't say I have ever used this option so no clue if that is normal or not. Keep in mind I carried over the memory from the previous motherboard so I doubt it's an issue with the memory sticks themselves.

For now I really just want to know if there is something I can do to get more information about what is happening when, or just before, the boot process fails.
 
One other peice of hardware was changed. The GPU was shifted from an old AMD Radeon card to a cheap Nvidia card (Geforce 730) as the former was dead. However I don't see how that can be related to the ramdisk given that video output is working fine
 
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