Recently, when I reboot my Proxmox hardware, I'm greeted with this message after the bootloader splash screen. It won't progress any further, even after letting it sit overnight.
But restarting it 5-10 times will eventually get past it.
I suspect it might have something to do with me passing a physical disk and the whole GPU to a Windows VM (my temp solution for TV gaming until I can get Sunshine issues ironed out) but I'm not sure where to start looking for the issue.
I thought it might be freezing when the VM tries to take control of the GPU, but with a continuous ping to both the server and the VM, I never get a response. That makes me think the issue is happening before the VM is started.
I'm basically just hoping someone could point me to a log that might have a related error message.
Respectfully, you and I are basing our feedback on incomplete information. That being said, it absolutely could be a hardware problem because the further get into the boot process, more data is loaded from disk into RAM. There isn’t some point beyond which hardware is no longer a concern.
Your point about dmesg is a valid one, provided you can even get to a login prompt. Otherwise, you’re captive to the terminal output on boot.
I reserve the right to be wrong, but my money is on bad RAM. If one wants to test the hardware without taking things apart, booting to a live USB/CD is a good option.