Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
# karu.pr...@gmail.com / 2014-07-24 12:35:09 +0900: Hi Roman That's good to hear! At least we know now that it was the A20 bug that prevented booting in the first place. I see the mount error every time I boot from a memstick. And I believe I understand what is the problem but don't know where or how to fix it in the code; at least not now. A workaround could be to specify the correct root device at the boot menu. When you see the boot menu, go to prompt, ie hit ''Esc or 9(?). Unfortunately it's not straightforward to find the correct root device since the boot program and the kernel name it differently. You have to guess and try. The devices you can get with lsdev, prompt lsdev prompt set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:da0s1a prompt boot OK lsdev cd devices: disk devices: disk0: BIOS drive C: * disk0s1a: FFS disk1: BIOS drive D: disk1s1: Unknown fs: 0xee disk2: BIOS drive E: disk2s1: Unknown fs: 0xee pxe devices: OK set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:da0s1a OK boot kernel text=0x972528 data=... ... at this point, disk1, disk2 are da0, da1; disk0 is (ISTR) da8. Mounting root from ufs:da0s1a no disk named 'da0s1a' setrootbyname failed ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp Root mount failed: 6 ... mountroot at this point the keyboard is dead (it's a wireless Logitech thing connected using a USB dongle). if that does not work, substitute for da5s1a and da8s1a and try again. Hope something works! my 10min quota is drained today, cu later :) -- roman
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
On 2014-06-21 19:23, Roman Neuhauser wrote: having just bought a Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F motherboard[1] i proceeded and failed to boot 3.8.1 and 3.8.0 from several different USB sticks. FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img boots normally. the system hangs on exit from the F1/F5 menu (boot0 i believe?). I have a A1SAi-2550F running DragonFly. Installing from a usb stick was no problem as long as it was in one of the usb2.0 ports. In the usb3.0 ports it couldn't mountroot because the xhci driver wasn't loaded by default. I have had neither bootloader nor other issues with the A1SAi-2550F and DragonFly. Cheers, Alex
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
prompt lsdev prompt set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:da0s1a prompt boot OK lsdev cd devices: disk devices: disk0: BIOS drive C: * disk0s1a: FFS This is the root device. disk1: BIOS drive D: disk1s1: Unknown fs: 0xee disk2: BIOS drive E: disk2s1: Unknown fs: 0xee pxe devices: OK set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:da0s1a OK boot kernel text=0x972528 data=... ... at this point, disk1, disk2 are da0, da1; disk0 is (ISTR) da8. Since disk0 has the rootdev, try da8s1a, set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:da8s1a boot Peeter --
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
# jus...@shiningsilence.com / 2014-06-21 17:46:24 -0400:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Roman Neuhauser neuhau...@sigpipe.cz wrote:
having just bought a Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F motherboard[1]
i proceeded and failed to boot 3.8.1 and 3.8.0 from several
different USB sticks. FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
boots normally.
the system hangs on exit from the F1/F5 menu (boot0 i believe?).
PXE should work but i still prefer having a means of booting
from a USB stick. what can i do to help fix this?
[1] http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/x10/a1sai-2550f.cfm
Try the 3.6.3 image - we switched USB to a new version between now and
then. If it does work, immediately upgrade to 3.8 and see what
happens. If it still has problems, we can hopefully get more
debugging info from a fully installed system.
as i mentioned in another email, 3.6.3 img suffered from the same
problem; 3.8.1 *iso* boots ok when i mount it using the vendor-provided
IPMI client[2].
now, before i get to boot-debugging-related questions... i was planning
to run a software RAID1 on the two SSDs i have in the machine, however,
the system presents them as da{0,1}, and natacontrol shows nothing.
do i have another option besides buying a controller card? i want to
use HAMMER for the whole thing, if it makes any difference.
[2]
ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/SMCIPMITool/Jar/SMCIPMITool_2.8.1_jar_20140319.zip
--
roman
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
Correct me if Im wrong but I understand you don't even see kernel booting? If true, then seems not related to the new usb stack since this kicks in much later in the booting process. The hang is immediately after the boot prompt; I've seen this since 4 yrs ago on my laptop (macbookpro) and believe it could be due to (U)EFI that I see your machine also has. Also, might be more related to boot (ie boot1 + boot2) rather than boot0 since I have a situation where DFly and FBSD both live in the MBR partitions and DFly's boot0 is able to boot FBSD, but not itself! Exactly the same phenomenon: I get the boot prompt (where actually the partitions are F1 = DFly, F3 = FBSD) F1 DF/FBSD F3 DF/FBSD and then hitting F3 boots FBSD, but F1 hangs. I can still boot DFly with an ISO image (get the prompt, set currdev etc and boot), but it's cumbersome. I don't know what the fix is; would like to hear if anyone has a solution. In the future (when I'll have some more time), I'd be interested in working towards integrating UEFI booting into DFly. Btw, when you'll get your machine to boot, can you tell if it works with the new usb? Peeter -- On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Roman Neuhauser neuhau...@sigpipe.cz wrote: having just bought a Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F motherboard[1] i proceeded and failed to boot 3.8.1 and 3.8.0 from several different USB sticks. FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img boots normally. the system hangs on exit from the F1/F5 menu (boot0 i believe?). PXE should work but i still prefer having a means of booting from a USB stick. what can i do to help fix this? http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/x10/a1sai-2550f.cfm -- roman
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
I don't think FreeBSD uses boot0 on their memstick image. At least I didn't get the F-key menu last time... You could try making a dragonfly image without boot0. Either by commenting out the boot0cfg -B -o nopacket line in nrelease/Makefile or by mounting it as a vn device and running fdisk -IB on it. I'm not 100% sure the second way will work. cheers, Max On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:10 AM, karu.pruun karu.pr...@gmail.com wrote: Correct me if Im wrong but I understand you don't even see kernel booting? If true, then seems not related to the new usb stack since this kicks in much later in the booting process. The hang is immediately after the boot prompt; I've seen this since 4 yrs ago on my laptop (macbookpro) and believe it could be due to (U)EFI that I see your machine also has. Also, might be more related to boot (ie boot1 + boot2) rather than boot0 since I have a situation where DFly and FBSD both live in the MBR partitions and DFly's boot0 is able to boot FBSD, but not itself! Exactly the same phenomenon: I get the boot prompt (where actually the partitions are F1 = DFly, F3 = FBSD) F1 DF/FBSD F3 DF/FBSD and then hitting F3 boots FBSD, but F1 hangs. I can still boot DFly with an ISO image (get the prompt, set currdev etc and boot), but it's cumbersome. I don't know what the fix is; would like to hear if anyone has a solution. In the future (when I'll have some more time), I'd be interested in working towards integrating UEFI booting into DFly. Btw, when you'll get your machine to boot, can you tell if it works with the new usb? Peeter -- On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Roman Neuhauser neuhau...@sigpipe.cz wrote: having just bought a Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F motherboard[1] i proceeded and failed to boot 3.8.1 and 3.8.0 from several different USB sticks. FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img boots normally. the system hangs on exit from the F1/F5 menu (boot0 i believe?). PXE should work but i still prefer having a means of booting from a USB stick. what can i do to help fix this? http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/x10/a1sai-2550f.cfm -- roman
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
# jus...@shiningsilence.com / 2014-06-21 17:46:24 -0400: Try the 3.6.3 image - we switched USB to a new version between now and then. If it does work, immediately upgrade to 3.8 and see what happens. If it still has problems, we can hopefully get more debugging info from a fully installed system. same outcome: gets stuck leaving boot0. -- roman
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
# karu.pr...@gmail.com / 2014-06-22 17:10:33 +0900: Correct me if Im wrong but I understand you don't even see kernel booting? If true, then seems not related to the new usb stack since this kicks in much later in the booting process. seems right. The hang is immediately after the boot prompt; I've seen this since 4 yrs ago on my laptop (macbookpro) and believe it could be due to (U)EFI that I see your machine also has. it's all set to legacy mode, i don't think this is the culprit. (i tried with UEFI, with indistinguishable result. -- roman
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Roman Neuhauser neuhau...@sigpipe.cz wrote: The hang is immediately after the boot prompt; I've seen this since 4 yrs ago on my laptop (macbookpro) and believe it could be due to (U)EFI that I see your machine also has. it's all set to legacy mode, i don't think this is the culprit. (i tried with UEFI, with indistinguishable result. Sure agreed. What I meant was that if you have a UEFI machine then even when it emulates BIOS style booting, then curiously DFly does not boot whereas FBSD does. Peeter --
Re: Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F
Try the 3.6.3 image - we switched USB to a new version between now and then. If it does work, immediately upgrade to 3.8 and see what happens. If it still has problems, we can hopefully get more debugging info from a fully installed system. On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Roman Neuhauser neuhau...@sigpipe.cz wrote: having just bought a Supermicro MBD-A1SAi-2550F motherboard[1] i proceeded and failed to boot 3.8.1 and 3.8.0 from several different USB sticks. FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img boots normally. the system hangs on exit from the F1/F5 menu (boot0 i believe?). PXE should work but i still prefer having a means of booting from a USB stick. what can i do to help fix this? http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/x10/a1sai-2550f.cfm -- roman
