Console never finishes loading

[moos]

Fresh install on bare metal of: TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.1.3
Did the install with only the install disk connected. No issues.
Console displayed url for the web UI. Went there and setup admin user.
Shut the system down. Connected data disks from a pre-existing pool (created with TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.1.3)
On startup after connecting the disks, the console never finishes loading. It gets stuck on the screen that says:
"Booting 'TrueNAS Scale GNU/Linux 23.10.1.3'
Loading Linux 6.1.63-production+truenas ...
Loading initial ramdisk ..."

The webUI works fine.
Imported the pool and the key to unencrypt it.
Added a user with an ssh key.
Can ssh to the machine. no issues running any commands
No alerts or errors
Same results after reboot

Ideas?

 

[moos]

to be clear, this isn’t quite the same issue as: https://www.truenas.com/community/t...on-loading-initial-ramdisk-during-boot.98753/

I don’t actually have any issues with the system running. It’s purely the console display

 

[moos]

Mystery solved. One of the nvme-to-pcie adapter cards was causing the issue (that I've had no issues with
in other distros.)

Did a fresh reinstall and added my adapter cards one-by-one til the issue re-manifested
Switched PCIe slots and bifurcation settings to no avail
Moved the nvme's to a different adapter in the same slot, issue gone