Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello again, On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM, umaxx um...@oleco.net wrote: http://wiki.bsdforen.de/howto/strato_mr2_openbsd for initial installation procedure since dettus.net was not really working for me cause of MBR boot issues (probably my fault). (Also I guess I should take amd64 there?)

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
Below is the Linux dmesg output (pardon the blasphemy). Any ideas please how to make amd64 install47.iso boot at this remote server? Thank you Alex Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 (mockbu...@builder10.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Hello again, On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM, umaxx um...@oleco.net wrote: http://wiki.bsdforen.de/howto/strato_mr2_openbsd for initial installation procedure since dettus.net was not really working for me

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
First choose correct floppy image as stated in Installation manual (previous mail from me), if it's not possible then try to boot from network or from USB flash (how to prepare USB flash is in FAQ too). And try both versions i386 and amd64 and send dmesg after that. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:44

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Thomas, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM, umaxx um...@oleco.net wrote: http://wiki.bsdforen.de/howto/strato_mr2_openbsd for

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Where on that page is sentence that you need to use cat floppy47.fs /dev/sda? Read this http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Again. Read FAQ 4 where is correct setup how to prepare floppy for install. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Did you try install i386 version if there is same problem and did you try latest snapshot in case that possible bug, if any, is repaired? On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Thomas, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Tomas Bodzar

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
I don't understand, why you refer me to faq4. What do you mean? I've mounted AMD64's floppy47.fs by vnconfig and have added set tty com0 stty com0 57600 to etc/boot.conf there. Then I've written it to /dev/sda (s. below). After that the remote server doesn't boot (switched to normal

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
But if I'm correct then /dev/sda is first SCSI disk in Linux terminology and you are trying to write floppy image on it. Why? On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand, why you refer me to faq4. What do you mean? I've mounted AMD64's

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Andre
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:13:23AM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: It hangs when starting install47.iso (AMD64) right after I enter ENTER or -c or boot -c (I was hoping to enter disable acpi...) Quit Strato. Should be painless possible with the german 14-28 days money back guarantee when

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
I can't quit them, I'm locked until summer 2011 there and I need a faster server with OpenBSD for my Facebook game now. So I'm trying to upgrade (i.e. change to their Quad AMD server) but the remote OpenBSD install doesn't work for me :-( I wish there would exist a Linux tool for writing bsd.rd

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread David Coppa
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: I can't quit them, I'm locked until summer 2011 there and I need a faster server with OpenBSD for my Facebook game now. So I'm trying to upgrade (i.e. change to their Quad AMD server) but the remote OpenBSD

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Robert
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:46:27 +0200 Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: But if I'm correct then /dev/sda is first SCSI disk in Linux terminology and you are trying to write floppy image on it. Why? That used to work and was the easiest way to install ded's with serial. Not anymore with

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Farber
I was wondering that as well, since Strato doesn't mention Remote Console in the description of its PowerServer L and M. And without that you probably can't install OpenBSD there? (I've seen a web page though, which somehow used VMWare for that...) After some consideration, I've decided to book

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Joerg Zinke
Hi, On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:07:08 +0200 Markus Hennecke markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de wrote: Am 09.06.2010 20:35, schrieb umaxx: I have a PowerServer M with Opteron 1210 which runs fine with 4.7-stable and native(!) IPv6. Does the PowerServer M still got the serial console option?

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Farber
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Markus Hennecke markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de wrote: I still got the old M server with the athlon and I have to disable ACPI to make it run correctly. Markus, how do you disable ACPI, with some Linux command? Thanks Alex

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread David Coppa
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering that as well, since Strato doesn't mention Remote Console in the description of its PowerServer L and M. And without that you probably can't install OpenBSD there? (I've seen a web page though,

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Robert
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:04:14 +0200 Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering that as well, since Strato doesn't mention Remote Console in the description of its PowerServer L and M. And without that you probably can't install OpenBSD there? (I've seen a web page

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Markus Hennecke
Am 10.06.2010 14:10, schrieb Alexander Farber: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Markus Hennecke markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de wrote: I still got the old M server with the athlon and I have to disable ACPI to make it run correctly. Markus, how do you disable ACPI, with some Linux

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Markus Hennecke
Am 10.06.2010 14:08, schrieb Joerg Zinke: Hi, On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:07:08 +0200 Markus Henneckemarkus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de wrote: Am 09.06.2010 20:35, schrieb umaxx: I have a PowerServer M with Opteron 1210 which runs fine with 4.7-stable and native(!) IPv6. Does the PowerServer

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread umaxx
Hi, On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:27:22 +0200 Markus Hennecke markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de wrote: A guy working at Strato told me that it was left out for marketing reasons to make the virtual servers look better. He seems to be wrong. I think I did not formulate the sentence right,

Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-09 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm using the german provider strato.de and had to jump through few hoops to install (unsupported by them) OpenBSD at the rented Celeron server (actually 2; dmesg attached just FYI) - I followed the instructions at http://dettus.net Now after few years I'd like to upgrade to their

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-09 Thread umaxx
Hi, On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:00:24 +0200 Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: Now after few years I'd like to upgrade to their PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE CPU http://www.strato.de/server/dedicated/power/linux/ Is anybody already using such a server, does it work with the

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-09 Thread Markus Hennecke
Am 09.06.2010 20:35, schrieb umaxx: I have a PowerServer M with Opteron 1210 which runs fine with 4.7-stable and native(!) IPv6. Does the PowerServer M still got the serial console option? A guy working at Strato told me that it was left out for marketing reasons to make the virtual