Proxmox stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk when booting.

[jonsj]

Hi,

I have a proxmox server running truenas, windows server 22, homeassistant.
Proxmox is on a Samsung PM9A1 SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe mounted on the MB.
The VMs with the exeption on the win server is on spinning HDDS.

I added a m2 extrension card and another PM94A, mapped it as a resource, added it to the win22 server vm as I was planning to run the VM on the m2 with pci passthrough,
When I restarted the VM, proxmox crashed, I restarted the server and its stuck on "loading inital ramdisk"
I boot into recovery mode and this are the errors I getpictures)

Among others:
"EXT4-FS WARNING - FS WARNING (DEVICE DM-1: EXT4_END_BIO_BIO:343 I/O ERROR 10 WRITING"

WEBGUI does not work, SSH works but has to be started in recovery mode each boot.
Can it be that adding the NVME expansion PCI card did something?

Any chance of a quick and painless recovery?

I relativly new to Linux and completly new to proxmox, let me know what kind of information would be usefull to solve the issues and I will post it here.

Hardware
Epyc 7401-p
SK Hynix HMAA8GL7AMR4N-VK 128 gb 2660 mhz ddr3(2x 64bg)
Samsung PM9A1 SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe
H11DSi | Motherboards | Super Micro Computer, Inc. H11DSi
NVIDIA 1080 TI
3 HDD

I would appreciate any and all help

 

[Mister J.]

Hi jonsj and everyone else who reads this,

My new Proxmox VM box (pve-manager 8.2.7) is also stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" when booting.
The difference is that eventually it boots successfully (while still stuck) and I am able to access the web interface.
This problem started after the first boot of my new installation.
I tried to solve it with a new install. but the problem still returned.

Hardware specs:
Dell Optiplex 9020 MT
32Gb of RAM
i7-4770 CPU @ 3,4GHz
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 VGA
2x 4Tb WD Gold HDD.

I hoped that with the next kernel update this problem would be fixed, but it wasn't.

Please advice,

Mister J.

 

[thecrystalship]

I had the same exact issue.
I finally booted with my install usb and chose rescue boot.
The system comes up fine but I have to do this every time I reboot.
Does any one know what rescue boot does?
Is it alright to run your system in this mode?

 

[alexskysilk]

cant speak to anyone other then then OP @jonsj, but his case is a failing disk.