Proxmox installation nvidiafb: unknown NV_ARCH

[wshyf110]

Hi,
Recently our lab has purchased a gigabyte server in which there are two RTX 6000 GPU mounted.

I was plan to install proxmox environment to create some vms for students, but some unknown error
happened when i was installing proxmox, the warning of this error is "nvidiafb: unknown NV_ARCH",
and the boot process went no further, i could only restart the server. I have attached the details about
the error warning here, i guess it is caused by GPU, but i really don't have any idea about that.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you very much.

 

[dcsapak]

you could try to install debian and pve on top https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster

 

[burn-]

I am having the same issue. Looks like a framebuffer issue in 5.4.73 kernel to me

 

[burn-]

4.19 kernel from Debian 10 functions fine.

 

[burn-]

It'll finish booting if I add
nomodeset nofb vga=normal to the kernel boot options...

 

[burn-]

then follow this guide to get X running.
https://www.rpiathome.com/2020/10/21/proxmox-6-2-1-installation-fails-after-dhcp-lease-obtained/

 

[janssensm]

@burn- Thanks for giving these hints. An older system was getting me in the same kind of trouble.
I could boot and complete the pve normal install option, but I wanted to use the debug mode option, in order to customize some things before rebooting after installing.
Nomodeset gave me same symptoms as https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-times-out-after-dhcp.68469/#post-307002

Perhaps it's the combination of monitor and older hardware (radeon internal video)

But after adding

nomodeset vga=normal

the debug mode was able to start Xserver and complete the installation process.

 

[technician]

@burn- Thanks for giving these hints. An older system was getting me in the same kind of trouble.
I could boot and complete the pve normal install option, but I wanted to use the debug mode option, in order to customize some things before rebooting after installing.
Nomodeset gave me same symptoms as https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/install-times-out-after-dhcp.68469/#post-307002

Perhaps it's the combination of monitor and older hardware (radeon internal video)

But after adding

nomodeset vga=normal

nomodeset vga=normal
the debug mode was able to start Xserver and complete the installation process.

forgive me for being a noob, but I'm having similar issues and don't see where one would edit the kernel boot options.

 

[dcsapak]

forgive me for being a noob, but I'm having similar issues and don't see where one would edit the kernel boot options.

on the initial selection screen, press 'e' then you can edit the boot options