Problem - following a power interruption my home server PVE now hangs on "loading initial ramdisk" step during bootup
History - had been running this server for about 1 year without significant incident. Previously had several power interruptions without issue. Several months ago I set the bios to power on to last state (to try to get it to auto-boot on power restore) this was likely the first power interruption since that bios change.
System info:
OS Linux 6.8.12-18-pve
System: Lenovo M710 SFF
intel core i5-7400 3.0 ghz
DDR4 memory 8 gb
OS drive - M.2 drive, 1 TB, teamgroup
Storage pool is in ZFS, including 3 SSDs, samsung 2 TB each
Currently running monitor via one of the displayport outputs
Troubleshooting steps taken
1. Prolonged waiting at least 1 hour, no change
2. In Bios, double checked that TCG (aka TPM) was set to hardware device and the device was set to "disabled", reset behavior on power restore to "OFF" - no change
3. Memtest - will not run in either mode (gives blank screen)
4. Advanced boot options - booting into Linux 6.8.12-4-pve or Linux 6.8.12-8-pve or 6.8.12-18-pve (either regular or in recovery mode) = same result
5. Adding kernel arguments at startup all gives identical result of hanging on "loading initial ramdisk" with no additional information
removed "quiet" same result, no additional information
"nomodeset" same result
"nomodeset i915.mode=0 " (also removed IOMMU), same result
"debug" (along and in combination with the above)
6. Booting a live image of another distro - kubuntu in this case, also gave just a blank screen after initial grub option "try or install kubuntu" was installed
7. Booting to PVE installation media and selecting the rescue boot option also just gave a blank screen
Thoughts/Questions
1. The fact that the system can't live boot into a live image or memtest suggests this isn't anything to do with the software of the host PVE system (or if there is then there is a separate problem affecting booting live versions)
2. BIOS settings appear to be appropriate
3. So suspect this is a hardware issue - will try pulling out memory sticks to see if one is bad.
Any other troubleshooting steps you can recommend would be appreciated - I've been combing the forums for troubleshooting steps and don't appear to be getting anywhere so thought it was time to ask for help.
History - had been running this server for about 1 year without significant incident. Previously had several power interruptions without issue. Several months ago I set the bios to power on to last state (to try to get it to auto-boot on power restore) this was likely the first power interruption since that bios change.
System info:
OS Linux 6.8.12-18-pve
System: Lenovo M710 SFF
intel core i5-7400 3.0 ghz
DDR4 memory 8 gb
OS drive - M.2 drive, 1 TB, teamgroup
Storage pool is in ZFS, including 3 SSDs, samsung 2 TB each
Currently running monitor via one of the displayport outputs
Troubleshooting steps taken
1. Prolonged waiting at least 1 hour, no change
2. In Bios, double checked that TCG (aka TPM) was set to hardware device and the device was set to "disabled", reset behavior on power restore to "OFF" - no change
3. Memtest - will not run in either mode (gives blank screen)
4. Advanced boot options - booting into Linux 6.8.12-4-pve or Linux 6.8.12-8-pve or 6.8.12-18-pve (either regular or in recovery mode) = same result
5. Adding kernel arguments at startup all gives identical result of hanging on "loading initial ramdisk" with no additional information
removed "quiet" same result, no additional information
"nomodeset" same result
"nomodeset i915.mode=0 " (also removed IOMMU), same result
"debug" (along and in combination with the above)
6. Booting a live image of another distro - kubuntu in this case, also gave just a blank screen after initial grub option "try or install kubuntu" was installed
7. Booting to PVE installation media and selecting the rescue boot option also just gave a blank screen
Thoughts/Questions
1. The fact that the system can't live boot into a live image or memtest suggests this isn't anything to do with the software of the host PVE system (or if there is then there is a separate problem affecting booting live versions)
2. BIOS settings appear to be appropriate
3. So suspect this is a hardware issue - will try pulling out memory sticks to see if one is bad.
Any other troubleshooting steps you can recommend would be appreciated - I've been combing the forums for troubleshooting steps and don't appear to be getting anywhere so thought it was time to ask for help.