On 2022-05-01, Andrew Lemin <andrew.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am totally stumped with issues while upgrading/installing 7.1 and I need > some help! > > Server; Supermicro X10SLV-Q (Intel Q87 Express), Xeon E3-1280 v3, 8G RAM, > Mellanox 10G NIC > > This server has been running OpenBSD flawlessly for years. I followed the > upgrade instructions and was able to reboot fine onto the 7.1 kernel (I > rebooted a couple of times on the 7.1 kernel in fact). However after I run > 'pkg_add -u' to upgrade all of userland to 7.1, the machine started hanging > during boot. > > The hang looked like an IO problem as it would always hang around the disk > setup stages. > I went into the BIOS and tried optimised defaults and failsafe defaults but > no luck.. > > I also downloaded a fresh copy and tried installing 7.1 from flash, however > the 7.1 installer also hangs. It hangs in the same place every time after > selecting 'done' to the networking config. > As I have a Mellanox card in here, I removed the NIC. but the hang > continues so its not that.. > > I get nothing to debug, it just freezes. I have reinstalled 7.0 which is > still working perfectly so this is not a hardware fault. > > Is there anything I can do to increase the verbosity to see what driver it > is trying to load before the hang? > > Other information, this is a totally headless machine, with a Xeon CPU > without any onboard GPU. It has a console connection with > console-redirection in the bios, and I have to set the tty params during > boot to interact over console. Otherwise everything else is standard.
If you can copy the console output (from boot loader to hang) from serial console into an email, that might give some clues. dmesg from 7.0 might be useful too. It's a bit unclear how you upgraded (pkg_add -u is for packages rather than userland parts of the OS) - normally you would upgrade kernel and userland such that you'd boot onto new kernel+userland at the same time, then update packages.
