On 2026-02-05, Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 09:42:09PM +0100, eelco van der vlugt wrote: >> Last month I gave away these servers to our IT community in the Netherlands >> , and treated myselve >> to a "final" solution to store my data. Thus I got an old Gen10 (NOT PLUS) >> Microserver. This however does >> NOT work out of the box with OpenBSD, even when i disable a whole lot it >> appaerantly is getting >> stuck during boot time at several places, I cannot get it to boot at all. >> I have first tried installing OpenBSD from an img usb and install onan >> other USB, when the install is over, >> it gets stuck at the first boot. Also when I try a previously installed >> (N36) working OpenBSD set up from a HD, >> it still gets stuck at the boot .. Last night I ended up disabeling around >> 10 things ; for example acpi,ahci,ln0,it,lpt, >> etc etc .. >> >> Can anyone maybe share some experience with this machine ? how to I get it >> to install OpenBSD properly >> and also boot ? For the moment I have been able to install and setup NetBSD >> 10.1, however, >> since I am a real OpenBSD adept, it just does not feel right , is that >> understandable ? > > If you're not able to boot OpenBSD at all, not even the ramdisk kernel, post > the NetBSD dmesg so we can at least see what's inside this machine. > >> I have not attached error messages, since they are numerous and as said, I >> have almost >> disabled already more then ten things with the boot -c options. > > Where exactly in the boot process does it crash? > > Does it reboot, freeze or what exactly?
^^ yes, these are important > Presumably you are trying to boot the amd64 install media, (which should work > just fine), but have you also tried i386? If do, did that also crash on boot? > > Are you using the latest BIOS available for this machine? > > Is it the original vendor BIOS or some kind of modified one? historically, many HP BIOS have had problems with i8042 (PC keyboard controller) emulation, might be worth looking for options relating to that in BIOS setup. also look at UEFI vs BIOS boot modes. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
