I recently acquired a Dell PowerEdge R820 which I'm trying to get an operating system running on. I've tried installing both Proxmox and bare Debian.
Here's just about everything I know:
- I used the proxmox-ve_8.1-1.iso and debian-12.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso installers
- (running on R820) The Debian installer gets stuck on the blue double-vision-looking screen after selecting an option at the initial menu, so I'm not able to use it on the server
- (running on R820) The Proxmox installer boots and I'm able to complete an installation to both the hardware RAID array and an internal NVME SSD
- (on another device) I installed Debian to an NVMe SSD using the live installer
- All of the broken installations have been using encrypted root w/ LUKS as is the default on Proxmox, and as provided by the Debian installer
Installation attempts:
- I attempted an installation of Proxmox to the hardware RAID array on the server (the intended use of the R820), and I got stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" when attempting to boot it
- I attempted an installation of both Proxmox and Debian to an NVMe SSD (what I would prefer to use) located in a Sabrent x4 PCIe expansion card inside the server, and I got stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" when attempting to boot either.
(I've been using Clover to boot from an internal NVMe SSD, which itself boots fine and has no problems booting whatever is on the NVMe SSD)
Boot fix attempts:
- Press "e" when in the GRUB boot select menu - tried removing `quiet` and replacing it with `ignore_loglevel 3` and `ignore_loglevel nomodeset` based on some reddit posts, but there have been no changes in behavior or output
- Attempting to change TTY after 15 minutes or so of waiting (ctrl+alt+F2 and similar tty switching) doesn't change anything on the screen - I believe it may be relevant to mention I'm using VGA on the front of the server directly to a VGA monitor.
Full output for every boot attempt (regardless of my attempted changes to kernel params):
Loading Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
Here's just about everything I know:
- I used the proxmox-ve_8.1-1.iso and debian-12.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso installers
- (running on R820) The Debian installer gets stuck on the blue double-vision-looking screen after selecting an option at the initial menu, so I'm not able to use it on the server
- (running on R820) The Proxmox installer boots and I'm able to complete an installation to both the hardware RAID array and an internal NVME SSD
- (on another device) I installed Debian to an NVMe SSD using the live installer
- All of the broken installations have been using encrypted root w/ LUKS as is the default on Proxmox, and as provided by the Debian installer
Installation attempts:
- I attempted an installation of Proxmox to the hardware RAID array on the server (the intended use of the R820), and I got stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" when attempting to boot it
- I attempted an installation of both Proxmox and Debian to an NVMe SSD (what I would prefer to use) located in a Sabrent x4 PCIe expansion card inside the server, and I got stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" when attempting to boot either.
(I've been using Clover to boot from an internal NVMe SSD, which itself boots fine and has no problems booting whatever is on the NVMe SSD)
Boot fix attempts:
- Press "e" when in the GRUB boot select menu - tried removing `quiet` and replacing it with `ignore_loglevel 3` and `ignore_loglevel nomodeset` based on some reddit posts, but there have been no changes in behavior or output
- Attempting to change TTY after 15 minutes or so of waiting (ctrl+alt+F2 and similar tty switching) doesn't change anything on the screen - I believe it may be relevant to mention I'm using VGA on the front of the server directly to a VGA monitor.
Full output for every boot attempt (regardless of my attempted changes to kernel params):
Loading Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
Statistics: Posted by Zytekaron — 2024-01-03 01:00 — Replies 1 — Views 59