Mike Larkin <mlarkin <at> azathoth.net> writes:

> 
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 06:38:23PM -0400, dewey.hylton <at> gmail.com wrote:
> > hi all. i???m having difficulty with this board:
> > 
> > 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 ???
> > 
> > running OpenBSD 5.7 i386, from cold start it boots just fine and runs
until rebooted. once rebooted,
> however, prior to anything being displayed (i assume this is early in the
bios post phase) i get one very
> long beep. super micro tells me this indicates inability to correctly
initialize the memory. okay, so
> i???ve changed memory for known working components and have the same
issue. at this point, the only thing
> that gets me booting again is to remove power and then restore power. it
then boots fine from cold start, and
> fails on the next reboot (as in, ???reboot??? from the command line). once
in long-beep failure mode,
> neither the hardware reset button nor the power button can make the
machine boot again. the only thing that
> works is removing power. every once in a while it will reboot s
>  uccessfully, only to fail in the same manner on the next attempt.
> > 
> > super micro has had me flash bios, clear cmos, boot from different
devices and with nothing connected,
> etc. the results are the same: when rebooting from openbsd, next boot
fails until power is
> removed/restored. super micro blames openbsd.
> > 
> > i installed linux (same hardware, overwrite openbsd 5.7) and scheduled a
reboot every 5 minutes and left
> it overnight. i logged 554 successful reboots.
> > 
> > i have since installed the latest available openbsd amd64 snapshot, and
am seeing the same failures.
> > 
> > i???m wondering if something could be disabled (boot -c ?) or if
something else raises a red flag and might
> have a workaround. this has me stumped. i would very much appreciate a
clue stick. 
> > 
> > dmesg follows:
> > 
> 
> acpidump please.

my pleasure:

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