I am trying to install proxmox on the Erying i7-11850H board and it keeps failing. I have tried installing proxmox 7.4 and 8.2, debian 12 and booting an existing install of proxmox 8. All of which failed as shown in the attachments. I installed windows 11 on the board without issue. All other hardware in the build is known good as i transplanted it from my old proxmox server, only the mobo/CPU is new. I have noticed the point at which the proxmox install freezes at changes the most common is on the line boot comandline but sometimes it gets to the next line with drivers and has an issue modprobe error intel_tcc_cooling. Once it got to the point of acquiring a DHCP Ip address and then froze. I think i may have a hardware issue with this board as many other people have run proxmox on Erying boards but as windows runs maybe it is a driver. Debian 12 stalled when retrieving nic-modules-6.1.0-22-amd64-di. My boot media worked on a different PC so that shouldn’t be the issue.
I reset CMOS and checked SecureBoot was disabled then tried to boot SystemRescue. Out of 4 attempts it failed twice, worked than failed again. The screen completely froze and it failed at 3 different points in the boot process. After i cleared the CMOS it boot looped twice with no video out before posting. The board has shown incredibly inconsistent behaviour. If i am lucky i can get into SystemRescue, so what should i try doing while booted.
Provided Sysrescue works, and is somewhat stable, perform memory testing, check for errors in the logs about missing modules and monitor power consumption. It’s an 11th gen Intel CPU, and although it’s a laptop chip, it can draw considerable power spikes. Your PSU may not be adequate to provide for those.
Also, consider the board may be faulty, despite booting/running Win-11.
I ran memtest overnight and it passed with no errors. I was using a 450W PSU so I switched to a better quality 600W EVGA PSU that was used in the last proxmox server and it still showed the inconsistent lockups. I think you might be right that the bord is faulty. I have had quite a lot of experience debugging and problem solving things like this but I have never had something so inconsistent. Sometimes it locks up very early and other times it will get quite far in.
Linux on laptop hardware can be an interesting experience. Based on my experience with linux and laptop hardware it maybe a kernel driver issue and not a hardware issue.
Have you tried other disto’s with a more up to date kernel or a rolling release? Proxmox has kernal 6.8, Debian 12.7 which came out last month has kernel 6.6, same with Systemrescue.
I have had good results installing OpenSuse tumbleweed on laptops that debian or ubuntu didn’t work well with. Ubuntu 24.10 was also just released with kernel 6.10 and kernel 6.10 has a lot of updates for laptop hardware.
You can install windows 11 and run stress tests like cinebench and furmark at the same time. Windows isn’t my favorite OS but it can run on hardware that linux has trouble with thanks to proprietary hardware.
I have a feeling you already tried this but maybe
Try enabling/disabling CSM (compatibility support module) in your BIOS, to switch between legacy BIOS and UEFI boot modes
