[PVE-User] 8.2-1 ISO doesn't boot via UEFI on usb

[Bryan Fields]

On 9/6/24 4:06 PM, Stefan Radman via pve-user wrote:

> I’ve been using both Ventoy <https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html> and YUMI <https://pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/> to install PVE 8.2-1 from USB thumbdrives on Dell servers (UEFI by default).
> Works very well for me.
> 
> My “PVE Install & Rescue” thumb drive contains several LiveCD ISO images alongside the PVE ISO:
> * clonezilla to backup the boot drive(s)
> * gparted
> other useful tools for troubleshooting as well as the host's clonezilla image if needed.
> Makes my life a lot easier.
> 
> Ventoy claims to support Secure Boot in UEFI Mode <https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_secure.html>
> Haven’t tried PVE installation with secure boot enabled though and would be interested to hear from someone who has.

I used ventoy to boot the proxmox-ve_8.2-2.iso (using the GRUB), it was able
to boot, detect UEFI and did an install with the UEFI loader.  I rebooted the
the system locked hard right after"

10.691682] acpi device:17c: hash matches
10.692362] acpi LMXCPU:04: hash matches
10.692790] acpi PNPOA03:00: hash matches
10.718413] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
10.719105] clk: Disabling unused clocks
10.830285] atal: SATA link down (Status 0 SControl 330)
10.830662] ata2: SATA link down (Status 0 Control 330)
[10.830996] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect

I disabled md autodetect and it still hard locked at the ata2: line.

I tried to boot the following directly (it's using ipmi emulating the cdrom
from a http directory) and none would boot.
proxmox-ve_8.1-2.iso	
proxmox-ve_8.2-1.iso
proxmox-ve_8.2-2.iso

proxmox-ve_7.4-1.iso did boot and let me run through an install, and booted.
I'm going to try an in-situ upgrade from it to 8.2.2.

Now I'm thinking there may be some issue with disk detection on this during
boot, as I ran into this on my other recent server build, it seemed the EFI
bootloader wanted to scan all the drives on the SAS HBA, but I disconnected it
and it went much faster at boot.  This current server has 45 disks across a
couple expanders and I cannot disable them in the bios to try this theory.

As of now, this seems to be a bug relating to supermicro x10/x11 servers with
the 8.x distros.


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