Proxmox stuck at loading initial ramdisk

[Adminnovate]

Hi all,

I am new to proxmox and linux/debian and i am used to windows but i love proxmox Gui and backup solution so i want to give it a try.
But i am really struggling to get past loading initial ramdisk.

Have read something that i might need ot change the Kernel, but i have no clue how to do that.
And somthing with initramfs but i donbt know how to change this is that in grub or bash.

How can i alter this if its not found? when using bash

Any thoughts?

 

[cheiss]

Hi,

did you use the latest 8.1-2 ISO?
How did you boot the ISO? I guess via a USB flash drive - if yes, how exactly did you write the image to the USB drive?

Also, what kind of hardware are you dealing with? Motherboard/firmware vendor and version would be the most important here.

 

[Adminnovate]

Check

I am using a asrock rack x470d4u/vn motherboard with ipmi capabilities
Indeed booted with usb and did this with rufus.
Partition scheme : MBR Bios uefi-csm
Filesystem Fat32
cluster size 8192 kb

Motherboard version is 2.2

And the version of proxmox is indeed the latest 8.1-2 iso

 

[Adminnovate]

Before i had hyper-v running properly on windows server 2019 and havent formatted anything when changing to proxmox.
So the partitions r still there on the other disks. but the os has been inserted into the ssd for only OS install.

 

[mikeys]

Got the same problem trying to install on a Dell PowerEdge T340. Can install Microsoft OS, ESXI, XCP-NG with no issues, but proxmox stops loading initial RAMdisk.

 

[Adminnovate]

I tried to make a bootable usb in balena etcher and this has the same outcome stuck at loading initial ramdisk.
Can it has something to do with the fact that i have onboard graphics that cant be enable at startup? something with nomodeset?
If so how can i alter this? if this is not

 

[Adminnovate]

Als tried to instal debian 12.5.0 this on the other hand wont even install, i see the install menu and then when i click praphical install then its shuts down my mouse and does absolutely nothing.

So it seems like i have a curse for linux based OS

 

[mikeys]

Tried various other operating systems on a T340 and all works except proxmox.

So currently will look at something else

 

[Adminnovate]

I have installed succesfully windwos server again, i will try to see if i can get a ubuntu machine spinning inside Hyper-v to see if that works!
I know hyper-v has nested virtualisation but i prolly can install proxmox but i cant use a hypervisior within a hypervisior so wil test to see if i can spin up proxmox to see if then the system will boot