Le Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 09:17:52PM +0200, Edgar Fuß a écrit : > I'm trying to run NetBSD on a Dell PowerEdge R6515, and the kernel is being > loaded (PXE or USB) but then the machine hangs hard. > > What's the way to debug a kernel that hangs so early that you can't printf > or drop into ddb? I guess that's a phenomenon quite common for a new port > or changes to locore.s (or whatever that's called today), but it's completely > new to me. > > I have virtually no clue about PeCee hardware. At the point the kernel is > started, are BIOS routines still available?
Start by trying to boot without the KMS. I had the problem of a kernel not reaching init, on a remote server, without any other access (no serial, no IPMI). See: http://notes.kergis.com/netbsd_on_OVH_baremetal.html -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
