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      sluflyer06
      last edited by sluflyer06

      Good Evening,

      I had some issues with a NIC so I had installed a dual 10GbE Intel X540 PCI-E card, I have since remove all associated networks from VM's and removed the PIF's from the Host.

      I ran xe pif-list and confirmed it does not show up there but upon shutdown of the host , remove the card and then power on, it starts to boot, and then shows the normal EFI mapping not available but then instead of showing the splash screen for a second it hangs for a extended period of time and then ends up at a dracut command prompt.

      I read the documentation here but this is as far as i can get. (https://xcp-ng.org/docs/networking.html#manage-physical-nics)

      The last initqueue message is /dev/disk/by-label/root-yylygk does not exist...starting emergency shell....if I reinstall the card it boots fine.

      Anthony

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        sluflyer06 @Andrew
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        @Andrew Thank you Andrew and Olivier, the 4 channel usb card shifted each of its controllers down 2 digits, i removed all the passthroughs, removed the hideback, booted without the card and then re passed the hardware and the box is happy again.

        Thanks for the inputs in few threads lately Olivier, appreciate the learning opportunities,

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          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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          Are you sure you did not left any PCI passthrough active?

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            sluflyer06 @olivierlambert
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            @olivierlambert

            I never passed that card to any VMs, there is 2 quadros passed to other VMs and 2 USB channels from a 4 channel card.

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              Andrew Top contributor @sluflyer06
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              @sluflyer06 Check your PCI device assignments. After removing the NIC, some PCIe devices may change ID numbers. If you have Dom0 configured to ignore some devices that you plan to pass to VMs you may now be blocking out the wrong device.

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                sluflyer06 @Andrew
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                @Andrew Thank you Andrew and Olivier, the 4 channel usb card shifted each of its controllers down 2 digits, i removed all the passthroughs, removed the hideback, booted without the card and then re passed the hardware and the box is happy again.

                Thanks for the inputs in few threads lately Olivier, appreciate the learning opportunities,

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                • olivierlambertO
                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                  No worries, I had the same problem few months ago 😆

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