On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:30:51PM +0300, Özgür Kazancci wrote: > Hello everyone! Greetings to misc people! > > Got a brand new dedicated server with a hardware: Intel Xeon-E 2274G - 64GB > DDR4 ECC 2666MHz - 2x SSD NVMe 960GB > and installed "brand new" OpenBSD 6.6 on it. (I'm managing it remotely via > KVM/IPMI) > > After the first boot, dmesg is outputting sequentally between few seconds > delays: > "wsdisplay0 at inteldrm0 mux 1 > init: can't open /dev/console: Device not configured" and the system doesn't > boot at all.
Is it possible that it does actually boot but that you just don't see the messages. Did you try pinging the machine or accessing it through SSH? > > Please refer to the screenshot attached: https://ibb.co/sQbt7F7 > > And after few hours of forums/IRC-logs readings, I tried to try the > suggestion of lots of similar-people: "disable inteldrm" > > To do that, during the boot I typed "boot -c", then got a brand new error > (IPMI/KVM freezes, no more keyboard input): > "kbc: cmd word write error" (with a weird cursor) > Please refer to the screenshot attached: https://ibb.co/QchqhtY > > Anyways, wanted to skip that -for now-, rebooted the server again, and > booted into bsd.rd, mounted the / and /usr on the harddisk, chrooted into > there and did; > "config -ef /bsd", then "disable inteldrm" and "quit" to save the changes. > Finally rebooted. > > The system booted up fine! Got the login prompt shell, logged in, well, with > -an another- brand new error :) > > "reorder_kernel: failed - see /usr/...GENERIC.MP/relink.log" This sometimes indicates that the previous boot got to the kernel re-linking stage but that it got interrupted there. I see this on VMs if I forcefully reboot them as soon as the login prompt appears. > > I guess that was because I modified the kernel, anyway, wanted to skip that > too -for now-. Did what I always do the first: syspatch > > installed the patches, rebooted the system, aand...Tada! "inteldrm0 is back, > b1tch3z!" :) > > Dmesg has again: "init: can't open /dev/console: Device not configured" and > delays there. No boot, again. > > My questions are: > > How can I get the rid of the error "init: can't open /dev/console: Device > not configured" to be able to boot into the system? > > if that was the only way (disabling inteldrm), would I repeat it each time I > issue syspatch? > > And each time syspatch (re)installs the kernel, should I get the error > "reorder_kernel: failed", because I modified (disabled inteldrm) kernel? > > Any words on "kbc: cmd word write error" when I tried the 'boot -c'? > > I thank you for your time in reading all these, > And many thanks for your suggestions, in advance! > > Best, > Özgür Kazancci -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM Uppsala University, Sweden .
