Issues installing proxmox on Lenovo X3850 X6

[KennethD]

Hi Everyone

I have an issue that might have been posted before, but i hope you can help me anyway.
I am fairly new to Proxmox, have been running it at home for some time now and want to migrate from Hyper-V on Windows server to Proxmox in our local eSport club.
We lucky to have a Lenovo X3850 X6 with 1.5TB of memory for game servers.

When i run the Proxmox installer from USB, the installer loads the install screen and created a ram drive.. and then reboots without warning.
I have tried to:
- use different USB sticks
- use Proxmox v. 7, 8 and 9 installers
- played around with different install parameters
- disabled different BIOS settings, like UEIF, secure boot and so on

But i seem to be stuck with the same behavior.
If anyone can help it will be much appreciated.

My next move will be to take out the NVME disk and install Proxmox on a newer desktop pc, and then move the NVME back to my server. Anyone tried that?

Thanks in advance.

 

[JohnnieKF]

Could you please check the IMM event log for any entries recorded at the exact moment of the reboot?

If you have not tried yet, you can also try running the installer in debug mode which might show more accurately why the installer is failing.

 

[KennethD]

i will try that. I can add that i tried to both install a clear Debian and load a Debian live CD, with the exact same result.

 

[leesteken]

Installing Proxmox via another system is possible as Proxmox, just like Linux, is not specific to the hardware. You'll might need to fix the bootloader and network configuration. But I doubt that will work around your current issue.

Your problem sounds like a hardware issue or Linux incompatibility. Proxmox uses a very recent Ubuntu kernel but when an much older Debian kernel caused the same issues, it's not likely a Linux incompatibility that can be fixed with a motherboard BIOS update. Although you could try that anyway, as it can fix incompatibilities, especially on older hardware.

Or maybe some of the additional hardware or PCI(e) add-in cards are causing trouble because Proxmox has IOMMU enabled by default since kernel version 6.8. Try turning VT-d completely off in the motherboard BIOS as some hardware does not work well with it.