I have a peculiar issue with one of my test machines. After dropping an additional NVMe into it Proxmox (7.3-1) "didn't boot". ...or I should say stopped responding over the network. The KVM turned out to be useless. I decided to plug in a physical monitor and a physical keyboard.
Well, this didn't work either: the only thing I'm able to see is "EFI stub: Loaded initrd from command line option". No amount of
The system seems to be booting as I see the NIC waking up after 10-ish seconds. And C+A+D restarts the system with a delay - this makes me think it's not frozen in any way. However, I'm afraid the NIC changed its name as a new PCIe device appeared in the tree.
However, my main issue is how can I get console on it? After a few hours of fighting I slightly gave up. I can just reinstall and get VM configs from backup, but that's not the point. I should be able to access local console. I never had such an issue in BIOS-boot... not even earlyprintk appears. Normally I would just use a good'ol UART but the motherboard doesn't even have a header for it.
Edit:
I was right about it booting. Network cards changed the order after adding a PCIe device (all
Another tidbit I discovered is that installing Linux v6.1 (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/opt-in-linux-6-1-kernel-for-proxmox-ve-7-x-available.119483/) actually makes the local console available. On 5.15 it's completely broken.
Well, this didn't work either: the only thing I'm able to see is "EFI stub: Loaded initrd from command line option". No amount of
vga=791, nomodset, or video=efi,keep gets me any console output. I tried playing with earlyprintk= to no avail. The rescue boot from PVE ISO (v7.3-1) is also non-functional and only prints "Compression algorithm 84 is not supported" when trying to run.The system seems to be booting as I see the NIC waking up after 10-ish seconds. And C+A+D restarts the system with a delay - this makes me think it's not frozen in any way. However, I'm afraid the NIC changed its name as a new PCIe device appeared in the tree.
However, my main issue is how can I get console on it? After a few hours of fighting I slightly gave up. I can just reinstall and get VM configs from backup, but that's not the point. I should be able to access local console. I never had such an issue in BIOS-boot... not even earlyprintk appears. Normally I would just use a good'ol UART but the motherboard doesn't even have a header for it.
Edit:
I was right about it booting. Network cards changed the order after adding a PCIe device (all
enp# shifted by one). This doesn't solve the problem of complete lack of console output after EFI stub and I think it must be addressed, as I was essentially flying blind. In addition this is probably a good feature request: Proxmox, as an appliance relying on remote management, should probably by default rename network cards based on MAC. While I can do it manually with systemd.link on my test system, I would rather avoid playing with the network configuration around Proxmox's scripts.Another tidbit I discovered is that installing Linux v6.1 (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/opt-in-linux-6-1-kernel-for-proxmox-ve-7-x-available.119483/) actually makes the local console available. On 5.15 it's completely broken.
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