On 08/23/14 18:49, Adam Thompson wrote: > Posting here before filing a bug in case this rings a bell... > > Dell PowerEdge 2900, with PERC 5 "integrated" controller. All BIOSes > and firmware levels up to date as of ~6 months ago. (Which should be > pretty current, since this isn't a new system!) > > Copying install55.fs to a USB stick and booting from it starts to boot, > gets part-way through the boot process, then suddenly reboots.
This machine has a CDROM drive on it, and Dell has had some fantasticly buggy USB support in the BIOS in the past. Use the CDROM. Or the ISO file through the DRAC. I know I've booted some OSs from USB drives on 2950s, but I don't recall if OpenBSD was one of them. > This server does the exact same thing with Ubuntu 12.04.x, but otherwise > works fine: FreeBSD (via FreeNAS), DragonflyBSD 3.8.2, Debian (via > ProxmoxVE), CentOS 6.4 all boot and work just fine; it's been operating > as a Proxmox server in production for the last 12 months without any > issues, so I'm fairly confident it's not a hardware problem. > > I don't even know where to start with this... ideas? Right now, I'm > re-writing the install FS so I can re-test, then I'll try an actual > CD-ROM. I can take video of the boot screen, not sure how to get serial > console output that early in the process. If your machine won't boot a CDROM image, I suspect your machine is broke. While I've never had a Dell PE2900 in my hands, the PE2950 is supposedly a very similar machine...and I think it is very very safe to say that OpenBSD works wonderfully on 2950s, and I'm pretty sure I've loaded Ubuntu 12.04 on 'em, as well. Nick.
