This particular hardware hasn't been around that long. The CPU was only released just over a year ago (Jan '25), but yes, it is odd that no one else has reported this issue. That said, it's possible that others never experienced it as they had used Promox before on other hardware and use configs like ZFS as their default and don't use the default installer settings. I just created the boot media, booted up, and expected it to work without having to make any changes other than setting pws and network info.
[SOLVED] MINISFORUM MS-A2 (AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX) - solution, use a ZFS option and not EXT4 when setting up storage
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Since my N5 ist a NAS-Model (5 bays) I decided to go with ZFS. You can even select ZFS for a (the) single boot disk. This is mine e.g.:
Ah, just saw you other post. I only wanted to point to another way to choose of during install. Seemingly that (ZFS) worked.
Be aware that PVE has a habit of wearing out (cheap) SSD pretty fast. Mine "AirDisk" above is now down 26% in half a year. At some point it has to be replaced with a better one but for me that's ok.
Also be aware that during testing PVE you could easily come to the decision to better reinstall with different (disk) settings.
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It might is we look for differences between the two, was the included drive in yours a KINGSTON OM8TAP41024K1-A00?
No. I removed the original NVME drive and installed 3x2TB NVME drives. Though, after 30 years of doing this stuff, the storage influencing this would be very odd. Maybe if I were using some kind of no name, ultra budget, chinese knock off from AliExpress drives would it have some kind of possible impact. That said, if everything else can use the drives in this configuration except Proxmox, then the issue isn't the hardware. That said, once I went with ZFS over EXT4, it installed and appears to be running normally. So it did come down to Promox installation configuration, not the hardware, not the firmware, and not the BIOS.
Got a Crucial and two TeamGroup ssds in there. I went with ZFS RAIDZ-1. That should give me plenty of storage and some level of redundancy. Hopefully it won't die until memory prices get back to normal.Since my N5 ist a NAS-Model (5 bays) I decided to go with ZFS. You can even select ZFS for a (the) single boot disk. This is mine e.g.:
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Ah, just saw you other post. I only wanted to point to another way to choose of during install. Seemingly that (ZFS) worked.
Be aware that PVE has a habit of wearing out (cheap) SSD pretty fast. Mine "AirDisk" above is now down 26% in half a year. At some point it has to be replaced with a better one but for me that's ok.
Also be aware that during testing PVE you could easily come to the decision to better reinstall with different (disk) settings.
