Benny Lofgren <bl-lists <at> lofgren.biz> writes: > > Hi Dewey, > > On 2015-09-12 00:38, dewey.hylton <at> gmail.com wrote: > > hi all. i’m having difficulty with this board: > > I noticed your mail somehow got posted twice, but I'm commenting on the > first incarnation of it because the second had some characters like '\'' > mangled (UTF-8 copy/paste issue I presume).
i posted first via my normal zimbra server, which seemed to have gotten hung up so i copied/pasted into the gmail web interface. i think the second to show up may have been the original (via zimbra). no idea why there's an issue. i only get daily digests via email so i'm posting this via the gmane interface; if this doesn't work correctly i'll have to sit down and figure out the best way to do this in the future. > > > Supermicro X7SPE-HD-D525 rev1 > > i have several similar systems, each running an older version of OpenBSD for a few years without incident. > except this one … > > You might already have tried this, but providing this information may > give important clues to the rest of us trying to help you: > > Since you say that your other similar systems are successfully running > older versions of OpenBSD, have you tried running this new system with a > version that you know works on the other boards? i just installed 5.4 on this board, just as is running on its original cluster mate (which is still running fine). same issue. > > And if so, then have you tried moving on to subsequent versions in turn > until you find the one which breaks? That is a really important piece of > information. > > Also, are those other systems "similar" or "identical"? If not > identical, what differs? This is also important to get a grip on the > problem. these are identical in all ways, except for the current bios version (which supermicro had me to update when troubleshooting). i'll attempt to back it down to the same version present on the working board and see where that gets me. > > Whether they are identical or not, showing us a dmesg diff with a known > working release booted from both a working and the non-working system > could also be helpful. i'll post the diff below. > > Regards, > > /Benny thanks for your input. i was shocked to find that linux didn't produce this issue as well; i don't understand how a failure for a board to post could have anything to do with an os which is not running during the post. that may just show how much i (don't) understand the hardware and bios side of things.
