On 07/31/14 12:58, Adrian Jervolino wrote:
Hey misc@,
I tried installing OpenBSD on our (previously FreeBSD 9.2 later 10.0)
server the other day and ran into a weird issue.
Boot and installation of my (emulated) install55.iso worked fine, but
once installed, I'm not able to pass the (AHCI or IDE) BIOS drive check.
What I mean by that is that the boot process is stuck at Debug LED code
a2 (or a3 for IDE) and it's not even possible to enter the BIOS setup
with the drive attached.
The motherboard is a 1150 ASRock server motherboard (C226 WS) with a AMI
UEFI BIOS. There is this weird legacy support module called CSM which I
never heared about and wasn't able t dig alot of information up.
I followed the BIOS' guide on resolving these kinds of issues
(essentally clearing CMOS and updating the BIOS), with no success.
Additionally I fiddled with every drive- or boot-related knob there
is.
I tried installing amd64 and i386, to both SSD and later HDD, booted the
installed drives on systems currently running OpenBSD, tried booting my
existing SNAPSHOT installation. Everything is working everywhere except
on the server motherboard.
My questions to you are: Has anybody ran into similar issues and was
able to resolve them? Do you think this is a OpenBSD related issue and
actually solveable (in a reasonable amount of time)?
Swaping the motherboard is currently no option, so I'm thankfull for
every hint.
not run into this variant myself, but I'm guessing the BIOS is reading
the MBR and choking because it isn't the one it expects.
One trick that might work -- the MBR code doesn't HAVE to be the OpenBSD
MBR code, so could I suggest booting a windows 95 or 98 floppy or CD,
and doing an "FDISK /MBR"?
You will probably have to do this on a different machine.
Not really an OpenBSD issue if OpenBSD code isn't even running, really.
Nick.
OpenBSD 5.5 (RAMDISK_CD) #237: Wed Mar 5 09:43:42 MST 2014
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD
