[SOLVED] New installation hangs on boot.

[Jauska]

Hey

I was trying to install Proxmox VE 8.4 on top of Debian 12 as I couldn't get it to boot straight from Proxmox media.
In the past this workaround has worked.
But after installing Proxmox kernel the system does not boot anymore.
It gets through BIOS and Grub.
I haven't yet removed the base Debian 12 kernel from the installation as I wasn't able to boot Proxmox kernel.
I tried both with Proxmox kernel versions 6.14.0-2-pve and 6.8.12-10-pve.
Booting the Debian 6.1.0-35-amd64 works and I can access the filesystem.

The machine I am trying to run this on had previously been running Windows Server 2025 Evaluation and XCP-NG with no issues.
Any idea how could I get Proxmox to boot on this system?

System Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
MB: A520 AORUS ELITE
Memory: 128GB DDR4 Ram 3200mhz
OS Drive: KINGSTON SA2000M8500G
Storage: 4*KINGSTON SNV2S2000G, 2*WD 750GB HDD, 2*Samsung SSD 850 500GB, 4*WD RED 4TB HDD
RAID Card: Startech pexsat34rh based on Marvell chipset 88SE9230

 

[l.leahu-vladucu]

Hello Jauska! Does it boot if you want for a longer time? This seems to be storage-related at first glance, since it stops when swap is enabled on the SSD. Could you please:

1. Check whether there are firmware updates for your storage, especially for the OS drive. This should be the PDF with firmware release notes that I found on the Kingston SSD firmware update page, and according to that PDF, they Fixed an issue that might cause the drive to become unresponsive on Linux systems
2. Check the RAID card for firmware updates.
3. Check for BIOS updates. I'm not sure if this will help, but it can't hurt.

 

[Jauska]

Hello Jauska! Does it boot if you want for a longer time? This seems to be storage-related at first glance, since it stops when swap is enabled on the SSD. Could you please:

1. Check whether there are firmware updates for your storage, especially for the OS drive. This should be the PDF with firmware release notes that I found on the Kingston SSD firmware update page, and according to that PDF, they Fixed an issue that might cause the drive to become unresponsive on Linux systems
2. Check the RAID card for firmware updates.
3. Check for BIOS updates. I'm not sure if this will help, but it can't hurt.

It was indeed the Kingston SSD firmware. After loading windows and updating it I am able to boot the kernel.

 

[RickardNilsson]

Hi, I have a similar problem with Kingston SSDs and Proxmox.

Hardware:

1. Motherboard: MSI X670E GAMING PLUS WIFI
2. CPU: AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
3. Disks: 1 x Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2048GB PCIe 5.0 M.2 NVMe and 1 x Kingston Fury Renegade M.2 NVMe SSD Gen 4 4TB

If Kingston Fury Renegade G5 2048GB PCIe 5.0 M.2 NVMe is plugged into the NVME gen 5 slot to the CPU the system refuses to boot (no matter if it is booting from this disk or not). If I unplug this disks it boots perfectly fine. It mounts the /tmp directory and then it shuts down.

Tested with a fresh install of Proxmox 9.0-1.

If I install Debian 13 (Trixie) it boots fine with the PCIE gen 5 disk connected. I haven't tried to connect this disk in a gen4 slot yet, that will be tested later today.

The Firmware in both disks are updated from Windows 2025-10-21.

Any ideas what I can do to resolve this? It would be great to be able to use my gen5 name as well.

Best regards,
Rickard