Hello, I'm renting a dedicated server from a web host that unfortunately does not propose OpenBSD installation.
So I'm installing OpenBSD using qemu from my host rescue mode (which use FreeBSD). Usually it works like a charm but this time, on this server/hardware, it does not work: OpenBSD does not seem to start at all. Indeed when I boot with qemu I do not see any logs of the "normal" boot of the server (I only see qemu's boots in the logs). Unfortunately my host can't offer me a KVM because the server does not have any video output. Do you have any tip I could use to debug this ? I'm used to this kind of installation but I'm lost on this one, I don't even know where to look and how to be able to debug without any boot and no vision on what is going on at boot time. (I tried with both bsd and bsp.mp kernels.) Any clue would be really appreciated! Thank you! PS: here is the dmesg output from FreeBSD: Copyright (c) 1992-2016 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0 r306420: Thu Sep 29 01:43:23 UTC 2016 r...@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FreeBSD clang version 3.8.0 (tags/RELEASE_380/final 262564) (based on LLVM 3.8.0) VT(vga): resolution 640x480 CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2338 @ 1.74GHz (1750.04-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x406d8 Family=0x6 Model=0x4d Stepping=8 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x43d8e3bf<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,RDRAND> AMD Features=0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x101<LAHF,Prefetch> Structured Extended Features=0x2282<TSCADJ,SMEP,ERMS,NFPUSG> VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 6442450944 (6144 MB) avail memory = 3926736896 (3744 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: <CORE COREBOOT> WARNING: L1 data cache covers less APIC IDs than a core 0 < 1 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard random: entropy device external interface kbd0 at kbdmux0 netmap: loaded module module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff8101c950, 0) error 19 random: registering fast source Intel Secure Key RNG random: fast provider: "Intel Secure Key RNG" vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard acpi0: <CORE COREBOOT> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed03000-0xfed033ff on acpi0 hpet0: invalid period device_attach: hpet0 attach returned 6 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed03000-0xfed033ff on acpi0 hpet0: invalid period device_attach: hpet0 attach returned 6 atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x77 on acpi0 Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 irq 0 on acpi0 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdff00000-0xdff1ffff irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 2.5.3-k> port 0x1000-0x101f mem 0xdfe00000-0xdfe7ffff,0xdfe80000-0xdfe83fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 igb0: Using MSIX interrupts with 3 vectors igb0: Ethernet address: 00:08:a2:0c:1e:5a igb0: Bound queue 0 to cpu 0 igb0: Bound queue 1 to cpu 1 igb0: netmap queues/slots: TX 2/1024, RX 2/1024 pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdff20000-0xdff3ffff irq 19 at device 2.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdff40000-0xdff5ffff irq 20 at device 3.0 on pci0 pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3 pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> mem 0xdff60000-0xdff7ffff irq 23 at device 4.0 on pci0 pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4 pci0: <base peripheral, IOMMU> at device 15.0 (no driver attached) ehci0: <Intel Avoton USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xdff81400-0xdff817ff irq 22 at device 22.0 on pci0 usbus0: EHCI version 1.0 usbus0 on ehci0 ahci0: <Intel Avoton AHCI SATA controller> port 0x2040-0x2047,0x2060-0x2063,0x2048-0x204f,0x2064-0x2067,0x2000-0x201f mem 0xdff80000-0xdff807ff irq 23 at device 23.0 on pci0 ahci0: AHCI v1.30 with 4 3Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0 ahcich1: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci0 ahcich2: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci0 ahcich3: <AHCI channel> at channel 3 on ahci0 ahci1: <Intel Avoton AHCI SATA controller> port 0x2050-0x2057,0x2068-0x206b,0x2058-0x205f,0x206c-0x206f,0x2020-0x203f mem 0xdff80800-0xdff80fff irq 16 at device 24.0 on pci0 ahci1: AHCI v1.30 with 2 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported ahcich4: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci1 ahcich5: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci1 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc0fff on isa0 ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range uart0: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x3f8 irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 uart1: <16550 or compatible> at port 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa0 uart1: console (9600,n,8,1) est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0 est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec nvme cam probe device init md0: Preloaded image </mfsroot> 74260480 bytes at 0xffffffff821a7c38 usbus0: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0 ugen0.1: <Intel> at usbus0 uhub0: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0 ada0 at ahcich4 bus 0 scbus4 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <HGST HTS721010A9E630 JB0OA3W0> ATA8-ACS SATA 3.x device ada0: Serial Number JR1000D32ESZBE ada0: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada0: Command Queueing enabled ada0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1750043568 Hz quality 1000 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 []... uhub0: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered ugen0.2: <vendor 0x8087> at usbus0 uhub1: <vendor 0x8087 product 0x07db, class 9/0, rev 2.00/0.02, addr 2> on usbus0 uhub1: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered random: unblocking device. igb0: link state changed to UP