two new installations of Proxmox VE 8.2-1 stuck at "Loading initial ramdisk ..."

[peracchi]

I have two old Acer notebooks that I occasionally use for homelab.

Today I went to install Proxmox VE 8.2-1 from the ISO proxmox-ve_8.2-1.iso (SHA256 = d99d182a0df4ba94c27668d3e33d14cc286d775a7bdf571a86c24ea522009e93) and tried several times, on both notebooks, always with the same result: after installing without any apparent problem and the notebook restarts, it gets stuck showing only these lines on the screen:

Booting `Proxmox VE GNU/Linux'
Loading Linux 6.8.4-2-pve...
Loading initiak ramdisk...

Both notebooks have discrete Nvidia graphics cards.

I don't know what the problem is or how to solve it, but I believe it has something to do with Nvidia cards.

Note: I have used older versions of Proxmox on these notebooks without any problems, it seems to be a relatively recent problem.

 

[peracchi]

I was wrong, the problem was not caused by the Nvidia card but because I installed it (as many people must do these days) from a pendrive with Ventoy where I have several ISO files that I use on a daily basis.

I found the solution in another thread here on the forum: Ventoy install of Proxmox 8.1 halts at "Loading initial ramdisk"

But I believe that something in the Proxmox installation process can be improved to no longer present this problem in the future. Because in older versions of the ISO this does not happen.