Re: NetBSD installer failure
hi, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:19:18PM -0400, Al Zick wrote: > drive and NetBSD booted up. All the servers have SuperMicro > motherboards, although the ones we moved back to are a different > revision. Still, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions. To add a data point: we're running our IPv6 firewall pair on a something identifying as Supermicro SYS-6018TR-T (0123456789) -is -- Ignatios Souvatzis, Chief IPv6 enabler Gemainsame Systemgruppe b-it + Informatik
Re: NetBSD installer failure
Hello, On Mar 3, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Al Zick wrote: http://datazap.net/sites/14/hang.jpg Does anyone have any ideas as to why? It's hard to say, but it looks like it's failing right before the real root file system is mounted. Did you have them try without SMP and ACPI ? You can disable those from the bootloader. Sometimes it's useful to setup NetBSD on a USB drive (ie.. do a full installation etc..). Then I put some alternate kernels on the file system and one of them I'll have a full debug kernel built that I can boot up on and (hopefully) get an idea of why/where- exactly the failure is occurring. You could probably do that and create a 2G or 4G image for your data center hands & eyes folks to rawrite to a USB drive and boot up the server on. Then FTP / dropbox it to them etc... I ended up going to the data center where these servers are at and trying a thumb drive, but no matter what I did it locked up at the same place. Not really sure why. We ended up moving the SSDs to the old servers that we had a few months ago. I plugged in the thumb drive and NetBSD booted up. All the servers have SuperMicro motherboards, although the ones we moved back to are a different revision. Still, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Kind Regards, Al
Re: NetBSD installer failure
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, the wise Al Zick wrote: I am trying to get NetBSD installed at a data center. They say the installer always fails in the same spot. Here is a screenshot: http://datazap.net/sites/14/hang.jpg Does anyone have any ideas as to why? In the dmesg of my NetBSD machine, directly after the ata messages (looks like yours) comes com0, but that isn't a good candidate of problems usually. Directly after that ACPI messages start, and that on the other hand could be a good candidate imo. Regards, Marco -- A good supervisor can step on your toes without messing up your shine.
Re: NetBSD installer failure
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Al Zick wrote: http://datazap.net/sites/14/hang.jpg Does anyone have any ideas as to why? It's hard to say, but it looks like it's failing right before the real root file system is mounted. Did you have them try without SMP and ACPI ? You can disable those from the bootloader. Sometimes it's useful to setup NetBSD on a USB drive (ie.. do a full installation etc..). Then I put some alternate kernels on the file system and one of them I'll have a full debug kernel built that I can boot up on and (hopefully) get an idea of why/where-exactly the failure is occurring. You could probably do that and create a 2G or 4G image for your data center hands & eyes folks to rawrite to a USB drive and boot up the server on. Then FTP / dropbox it to them etc... -Swift
