After reviewing your dmesg and googling the model of your CPU, might I
suggest/recommend turning off hyperthreading if you can.  Bad security
juju.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 6:29 PM Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:30:51PM +0300, Özgür Kazancci wrote:
> > Hello everyone! Greetings to misc people!
> >
> > Got a brand new dedicated server with a hardware: Intel Xeon-E 2274G - 64GB
> > DDR4 ECC 2666MHz - 2x SSD NVMe 960GB
> > and installed "brand new" OpenBSD 6.6 on it. (I'm managing it remotely via
> > KVM/IPMI)
> >
> > After the first boot, dmesg is outputting sequentally between few seconds
> > delays:
> > "wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1
> > init: can't open /dev/console: Device not configured" and the system doesn't
> > boot at all.
>
> Is it possible that it does actually boot but that you just don't see the
> messages.  Did you try pinging the machine or accessing it through SSH?
>
>
> >
> > Please refer to the screenshot attached: https://ibb.co/sQbt7F7
> >
> > And after few hours of forums/IRC-logs readings, I tried to try the
> > suggestion of lots of similar-people: "disable inteldrm"
> >
> > To do that, during the boot I typed "boot -c", then got a brand new error
> > (IPMI/KVM freezes, no more keyboard input):
> > "kbc: cmd word write error" (with a weird cursor)
> > Please refer to the screenshot attached: https://ibb.co/QchqhtY
> >
> > Anyways, wanted to skip that -for now-, rebooted the server again, and
> > booted into bsd.rd, mounted the / and /usr on the harddisk, chrooted into
> > there and did;
> > "config -ef /bsd", then "disable inteldrm" and "quit" to save the changes.
> > Finally rebooted.
> >
> > The system booted up fine! Got the login prompt shell, logged in, well, with
> > -an another- brand new error :)
> >
> > "reorder_kernel: failed - see /usr/...GENERIC.MP/relink.log"
>
> This sometimes indicates that the previous boot got to the kernel
> re-linking stage but that it got interrupted there.  I see this on VMs
> if I forcefully reboot them as soon as the login prompt appears.
>
>
> >
> > I guess that was because I modified the kernel, anyway, wanted to skip that
> > too -for now-. Did what I always do the first: syspatch
> >
> > installed the patches, rebooted the system, aand...Tada! "inteldrm0 is back,
> > b1tch3z!" :)
> >
> > Dmesg has again: "init: can't open /dev/console: Device not configured" and
> > delays there. No boot, again.
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> > How can I get the rid of the error "init: can't open /dev/console: Device
> > not configured" to be able to boot into the system?
> >
> > if that was the only way (disabling inteldrm), would I repeat it each time I
> > issue syspatch?
> >
> > And each time syspatch (re)installs the kernel, should I get the error
> > "reorder_kernel: failed", because I modified (disabled inteldrm) kernel?
> >
> > Any words on "kbc: cmd word write error" when I tried the 'boot -c'?
> >
> > I thank you for your time in reading all these,
> > And many thanks for your suggestions, in advance!
> >
> > Best,
> > Özgür Kazancci
>
> --
> Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
> SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
> Uppsala University, Sweden
>
> .
>


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