NVIDIA Driver Crashes on BalenaOS

Hardware:

  • Motherboard: MSI PRO B860M-A WIFI (MS-7E42)

  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5080

  • BalenaOS: 6.5 (observed on different versions)

Problem:

System reboots when running modprobe nvidia during driver loading. No kernel logs generated - just clean reboot. Driver compilation succeeds, crash only happens during module load.

Tested on multiple nvidia driver versions 550, 560, 570-open, 575-open, 580

Issue appears BalenaOS-specific. Same hardware works perfectly with Ubuntu 24.04 + NVIDIA drivers

I wonder if anyone else experienced the same issue?