I've got a Proxmox box at home that's been running fine for years now (Gigabyte consumer X58 board, X5690), with my mirrored zfs boot disks hanging off of the onboard Intel SATA ports, and a bunch of other storage connected to a pair of 9310-8i HBAs (SC836 w/ TQ backplane).
I just got a 9400-16i with the intention of consolidating my controllers into one slot but am having trouble booting when I install the new HBA.
With a temporary GPU installed, I can see that the bios will post, then the HBA option ROM will list all of my storage disks, then proceed to GRUB, then after doing loading the initramfs, get stuck at a black screen with blinking cursor. I tried waiting it out but it never proceeded past this even after an hour.
I tried moving the card around to various slots, as well as disconnecting all of my storage drives, but nothing seems to work.
Returning the configuration to my 9310-8i pair allows the machine to boot again without issue.
I was running a pair of flashed H310s in the past before this as well and never encountered any issues. The only other PCIe card installed is a ConnectX-3 for 40GbE.
My desktop Ryzen machine boots arch and windows 10 with the 9400-16i installed, and I can interact with it via storcli so I don't think the card has a hardware fault either.
I am suspecting some sort of issue with my X58 board's bios but I have no real way of knowing since I can't even get it to boot to anything useful to diagnose.
Anybody have any suggestions?
I just got a 9400-16i with the intention of consolidating my controllers into one slot but am having trouble booting when I install the new HBA.
With a temporary GPU installed, I can see that the bios will post, then the HBA option ROM will list all of my storage disks, then proceed to GRUB, then after doing loading the initramfs, get stuck at a black screen with blinking cursor. I tried waiting it out but it never proceeded past this even after an hour.
I tried moving the card around to various slots, as well as disconnecting all of my storage drives, but nothing seems to work.
Returning the configuration to my 9310-8i pair allows the machine to boot again without issue.
I was running a pair of flashed H310s in the past before this as well and never encountered any issues. The only other PCIe card installed is a ConnectX-3 for 40GbE.
My desktop Ryzen machine boots arch and windows 10 with the 9400-16i installed, and I can interact with it via storcli so I don't think the card has a hardware fault either.
I am suspecting some sort of issue with my X58 board's bios but I have no real way of knowing since I can't even get it to boot to anything useful to diagnose.
Anybody have any suggestions?