UEFI Boot Display suddenly not initializing (yet?)

scupitt

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Hello all!

I'm having a bear of an issue trying to figure out why my windows server VM suddenly went offline. For context, I'd been having a BlueScreening issue as a result of using iSCSI, in an attempt to fix it my colleague unchecked the 'Use LUNs Directly' option (since we run 3 or 4 VMs off of iSCSI), and just like that....
Screenshot 2024-10-01 at 00.41.20.png

Now, naturally, the first step was to undo the setting change we just made, however even after reboots of the whole node and cluster nothing changed. My next step was to see if I could get something to boot off of a BIOS and I could! When I switch to SeaBIOS without changing anything I can manage to get the windows installer disc to pop up, and in fact I loaded up an iso of Ubuntu to verify that the SCSI drive is still being detected as bootable, and the partitioning and file content still looks correct.

I've been scouring the forums trying to see if there's a fix but I can't seem to find one, from changing the machine type, to changing hotplug elements, I'm drawing a blank lol. Here's some screenshots of the machine configuration, any help is VERY appreciated and I can provide any information necessary!

Screenshot 2024-10-01 at 00.50.08.pngScreenshot 2024-10-01 at 00.49.26.png

For reference, all of the other VMs on my cluster are working fine, including a Windows 11 VM on another node using UEFI & scsi and a VM on the local machine that uses scsi (for some examples). Looks like the other windows machine has about the same config:
Screenshot 2024-10-01 at 00.55.14.png
 
Two things I notice (only on the none-functioning VM):

1. You have no TPM (AFAIK this is required for Windows 11).
2. You are using an old version (5.1) of i440fx on the VM - try a more recent version.
 
Two things I notice (only on the none-functioning VM):

1. You have no TPM (AFAIK this is required for Windows 11).
2. You are using an old version (5.1) of i440fx on the VM - try a more recent version.
Hi yes,

I added a TPM State drive and it's still not booting up
I switched the machine state from version 9 to 5.1 as debugging, I put it back to 9 when I tried TPM.. for some reason the 'latest' option isn't showing up but that's no big deal hopefully
 
A Clue

Code:
Oct 01 01:54:13 pve pvedaemon[1169]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:pve:00351B65:0262E476:66FB9C95:qmstart:104:root@pam:
Oct 01 01:54:14 pve systemd[1]: Started 104.scope.
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: tap104i0: entered promiscuous mode
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: vmbr0: port 2(fwpr104p0) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: vmbr0: port 2(fwpr104p0) entered disabled state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwpr104p0: entered allmulticast mode
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwpr104p0: entered promiscuous mode
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: tg3 0000:03:00.1 eno2: entered promiscuous mode
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: vmbr0: port 2(fwpr104p0) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: vmbr0: port 2(fwpr104p0) entered forwarding state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 1(fwln104i0) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 1(fwln104i0) entered disabled state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwln104i0: entered allmulticast mode
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwln104i0: entered promiscuous mode
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 1(fwln104i0) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 1(fwln104i0) entered forwarding state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 2(tap104i0) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 2(tap104i0) entered disabled state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: tap104i0: entered allmulticast mode
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 2(tap104i0) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:15 pve kernel: fwbr104i0: port 2(tap104i0) entered forwarding state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: tap104i1: entered promiscuous mode
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: vmbr1: port 2(fwpr104p1) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: vmbr1: port 2(fwpr104p1) entered disabled state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwpr104p1: entered allmulticast mode
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwpr104p1: entered promiscuous mode
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: vmbr1: port 2(fwpr104p1) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: vmbr1: port 2(fwpr104p1) entered forwarding state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 1(fwln104i1) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 1(fwln104i1) entered disabled state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwln104i1: entered allmulticast mode
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwln104i1: entered promiscuous mode
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 1(fwln104i1) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 1(fwln104i1) entered forwarding state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 2(tap104i1) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 2(tap104i1) entered disabled state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: tap104i1: entered allmulticast mode
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 2(tap104i1) entered blocking state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve kernel: fwbr104i1: port 2(tap104i1) entered forwarding state
Oct 01 01:54:16 pve pvedaemon[1169]: <root@pam> end task UPID:pve:00351B65:0262E476:66FB9C95:qmstart:104:root@pam: OK
Oct 01 01:54:18 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Connect timeout
Oct 01 01:54:18 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Can't connect to qnetd host. (-5986): Network address not available (in use?)
Oct 01 01:54:26 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Connect timeout
Oct 01 01:54:26 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Can't connect to qnetd host. (-5986): Network address not available (in use?)
Oct 01 01:54:34 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Connect timeout
Oct 01 01:54:34 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Can't connect to qnetd host. (-5986): Network address not available (in use?)
Oct 01 01:54:42 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Connect timeout
Oct 01 01:54:42 pve corosync-qdevice[1079]: Can't connect to qnetd host. (-5986): Network address not available (in use?)
 

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