Install help, keeps freezing

Bushibot

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Feb 14, 2025
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So I’ve been trying for three days to get proxmox installed on a fairly modern i9 13k, 32gig (ram passed mem86 10 hour test), nve storage, desktop system. Hardware https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=26f110784e

No matter what I try, it seems to freeze partway through and just give up the install.
I have a small pile of USB drives that I have tried. USB 2 and 3.2 and C etc.

I have tried 8.3, 8.2 and 7.4 at different Reddit suggestions based on whatever magic worked for them.
I have hash checked each download and validated its correct, I have tried writing the image with a couple different apps, because everybody seems to have their favorite that they swear by. I’ve tried writing them with a couple different computers too.

I have an Nvidia card so I find I have to add nomodeset of it hangs early. If I add them it seems to crash in different radon places.

If there’s some underlying hardware problem, I just can’t seem to get it to show up in any other meaningful way other than when an install fails. I’ve kind of felt like Linux in general hates assus and maybe Nividia for a while but I’ stuck there.

Most recent attempt with 8.3 watching the debug crashed at generating locals en_us.utf-8…_
I gave it an hour to sit, but nope.

This can’t be this hard somebody please tell me what i might be missing . I am not inexperienced with troubleshooting things, but this is driving me nuts.
I’d appreciate any advice that isn’t just try another USB key or make sure your download isn’t corrupted or try a different iso burner. Been there, done that, extensively.
 
On try 53 it install got to 100% and ended with
Installation failed proxmox ve could not be installed
bootloader setup errors:
- failed to prepare EFI boot using Grub on '/dev/nvme0n1p2': unable to install the EFI boot loader on '/dev/nvmeOn]'
 
Now
command 'chroot /target dpkg --force-confold --configure -a' failed with exit code 1 at /usr/share/perl5/Proxmox/Install.pm line 1249.
Time to sleep before I kick over a monitor.
I’ll try the Debian thing tomorrow, I had pop_os running fine before I tried prox.