Hard lockup during install

[Rhys79]

Attempting to install ProxMox on an older Intel server, installing to a pair of Intel SSDs on an LSI RAID controller. I've tried both with the two drives configured as a RAID1 mirror in the LSI controller using EXT4, as well as in non-RAID mode using ZFS RAID1. The installer boots up fine, install goes great until it gets to the making bootable stage. Tried using debug mode, and on the secondary screen, the last thing it shows before the system deadlocks (completely unresponsive to all input) is -

Copied "/usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/systemd-bootx64.efi" to "/var/tmp/espmounts/F836-C748/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

At this point, I've left the system sit there for 15+ minutes hoping maybe it was just stuck on something, but it is still deadlocked.

Any suggestions on this one? It's just meant to be a test host, so it's not critical, just frustrating that it doesn't want to boot properly....

 

[Rhys79]

Just an update, as I've had no replies yet. After numerous attempts in multiple different manners, including attempting an install to a USB drive, all efforts ended with the same issue of a deadlock during grub install.

I was able to drop the pair of disks I wanted to install to as a ZFS pool into a newer server, perform the install, and then transplant the disks into the server in question without any major issues other than needing to manually fix up the network settings since the interface names changed.

So, no resolution to the problem, but I was able to work around it.