Hi all, I am totally stumped with issues while upgrading/installing 7.1 and I need some help!
Server; Supermicro X10SLV-Q (Intel Q87 Express), Xeon E3-1280 v3, 8G RAM, Mellanox 10G NIC This server has been running OpenBSD flawlessly for years. I followed the upgrade instructions and was able to reboot fine onto the 7.1 kernel (I rebooted a couple of times on the 7.1 kernel in fact). However after I run 'pkg_add -u' to upgrade all of userland to 7.1, the machine started hanging during boot. The hang looked like an IO problem as it would always hang around the disk setup stages. I went into the BIOS and tried optimised defaults and failsafe defaults but no luck.. I also downloaded a fresh copy and tried installing 7.1 from flash, however the 7.1 installer also hangs. It hangs in the same place every time after selecting 'done' to the networking config. As I have a Mellanox card in here, I removed the NIC. but the hang continues so its not that.. I get nothing to debug, it just freezes. I have reinstalled 7.0 which is still working perfectly so this is not a hardware fault. Is there anything I can do to increase the verbosity to see what driver it is trying to load before the hang? Other information, this is a totally headless machine, with a Xeon CPU without any onboard GPU. It has a console connection with console-redirection in the bios, and I have to set the tty params during boot to interact over console. Otherwise everything else is standard. Thanks for your time, Best regards Andy.
