Re: Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: I've installed OpenBSD-current AMD64 on my new computer without problems, but as soon as I reboot the system, it freezes in the post. The only way to go past the post is wiping the first few megabytes of the harddisk using another computer and than start again. After installing I can't even enter the bios setup. The system contains the following components: - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H - CPU: Intel Core i3 4130T - Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit I've configured the bios the following way: - Windows 8 Features: Other OS - Boot Mode Selection: Legacy Only - VGA Support: Auto (Enables legacy option) The system is working since I can install and run Ubuntu 14.04 AMD64 without problems. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer Experienced something similar today with a Gigabyte board from the Core 2 Duo era. (this may not be an OpenBSD problem in my opinion) Used an disk with a working Fedora 20/OpenBSD 5.4 install on it to do a clean install of OpenSUSE 13.1. Upon first boot the system hangs in the Intel AHCI screen. Normally a list of SATA ports and connected disks would appear but nothing happens. Eventually the simple solution for me was to use the second SATA controller this board has. So it may be an issue with how the Intel SATA BIOS detects the disks. I don't want to waste more time on this so I'm posting some minimal info which may or may not useful: The disk originally had its first partitions start at offset 63: Disk: sd0 geometry: 9729/255/63 [156301488 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start:size ] --- *0: 83 5660 19 56 - 5723 208 53 [90929152: 1024000 ] Linux files* 1: 8E 5723 208 54 - 9729 78 13 [91953152:64348160 ] Linux LVM 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: A6 0 1 1 - 5659 254 63 [ 63:90927837 ] OpenBSD Now, in the non-working situation, it starts at 2048 (first MB was reserved by the OpenSUSE installer). Another disk that used to work has its first partition start at offset 64: Disk: sd0 geometry: 7297/255/63 [117231408 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start:size ] --- 0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused *3: A6 0 1 2 - 7297 36 27 [ 64: 117228536 ] OpenBSD
Re: Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
Ubuntu (server) 14.04 supports UEFI so it's hard to tell what you are seeing here. Perhaps you could explain what happens when you try and boot OpenBSD? Let's start with 1. what medium are you using and 2. what does it display when it tries to boot? When I power on the machine I see the GigaByte logo and at the bottom the options to enter the bios, Q-flash and boot selection. As soon as this is shown the system freezes. I can't enter the bios by pressing Del or select the boot media by pressing F12 nor does OpenBSD start. I've installed the system using the install55.iso onto the SATA harddisk (WD Green 1TB). Once I have installed OpenBSD onto the harddisk I can't get into the bios or boot from a CDROM althrough the CDROM is specified as the first boot device. To be able to enter the bios again I have to remove the harddisk or whipe the first few megabytes of the harddisk with dd on another computer. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer
Re: Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
On Mon (28/04/14), Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: I've installed OpenBSD-current AMD64 on my new computer without problems, but as soon as I reboot the system, it freezes in the post. The only way to go past the post is wiping the first few megabytes of the harddisk using another computer and than start again. After installing I can't even enter the bios setup. The system contains the following components: - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H - CPU: Intel Core i3 4130T - Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit I've configured the bios the following way: - Windows 8 Features: Other OS - Boot Mode Selection: Legacy Only - VGA Support: Auto (Enables legacy option) Hello, I'm not familiar with the particular motherboard, but I had success with other Gigabyte models. Find the option CSM Support in the bios and set it to Always, leave Boot Mode Selection and Storage Boot Option Control to Legacy Only, power down the system and then try booting OpenBSD. If it works, could you pls try booting OpenBSD from PXE, with bios option Other PCI Device ROM Priority set to Legacy OpROM ?
Re: Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
I've installed OpenBSD-current AMD64 on my new computer without problems, but as soon as I reboot the system, it freezes in the post. The only way to go past the post is wiping the first few megabytes of the harddisk using another computer and than start again. After installing I can't even enter the bios setup. The system contains the following components: - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H - CPU: Intel Core i3 4130T - Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit I've configured the bios the following way: - Windows 8 Features: Other OS - Boot Mode Selection: Legacy Only - VGA Support: Auto (Enables legacy option) I'm not familiar with the particular motherboard, but I had success with other Gigabyte models. Find the option CSM Support in the bios and set it to Always, leave Boot Mode Selection and Storage Boot Option Control to Legacy Only, power down the system and then try booting OpenBSD. Unfortunately that doesn't work either. The strange thing is that if I remove the harddisk and use an USB stick I can install OpenBSD on it and boot it without problems. When I place the harddisk back with only an OpenBSD fdisk partition (A6) I can still boot from the USB stick, but once I place a disklabel on the harddisk I can't boot anymore (the system freezes on reboot). Apparently the bios can't handle the disklabel... Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer
Re: Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
I have exactly the same issues here on a Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-DH3, a bit strange indeed. I have tried turn every knob there is in the bios menu. :-) 2014-04-29 21:18 GMT+02:00 Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.org: I've installed OpenBSD-current AMD64 on my new computer without problems, but as soon as I reboot the system, it freezes in the post. The only way to go past the post is wiping the first few megabytes of the harddisk using another computer and than start again. After installing I can't even enter the bios setup. The system contains the following components: - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H - CPU: Intel Core i3 4130T - Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit I've configured the bios the following way: - Windows 8 Features: Other OS - Boot Mode Selection: Legacy Only - VGA Support: Auto (Enables legacy option) I'm not familiar with the particular motherboard, but I had success with other Gigabyte models. Find the option CSM Support in the bios and set it to Always, leave Boot Mode Selection and Storage Boot Option Control to Legacy Only, power down the system and then try booting OpenBSD. Unfortunately that doesn't work either. The strange thing is that if I remove the harddisk and use an USB stick I can install OpenBSD on it and boot it without problems. When I place the harddisk back with only an OpenBSD fdisk partition (A6) I can still boot from the USB stick, but once I place a disklabel on the harddisk I can't boot anymore (the system freezes on reboot). Apparently the bios can't handle the disklabel... Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer
Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
I've installed OpenBSD-current AMD64 on my new computer without problems, but as soon as I reboot the system, it freezes in the post. The only way to go past the post is wiping the first few megabytes of the harddisk using another computer and than start again. After installing I can't even enter the bios setup. The system contains the following components: - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H - CPU: Intel Core i3 4130T - Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit I've configured the bios the following way: - Windows 8 Features: Other OS - Boot Mode Selection: Legacy Only - VGA Support: Auto (Enables legacy option) The system is working since I can install and run Ubuntu 14.04 AMD64 without problems. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer
Re: Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
Martijn Rijkeboer [mart...@bunix.org] wrote: The system is working since I can install and run Ubuntu 14.04 AMD64 without problems. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Ubuntu (server) 14.04 supports UEFI so it's hard to tell what you are seeing here. Perhaps you could explain what happens when you try and boot OpenBSD? Let's start with 1. what medium are you using and 2. what does it display when it tries to boot?
Re: Problem booting OpenBSD-current AMD64
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Martijn Rijkeboer mart...@bunix.orgwrote: I've installed OpenBSD-current AMD64 on my new computer without problems, but as soon as I reboot the system, it freezes in the post. The only way to go past the post is wiping the first few megabytes of the harddisk using another computer and than start again. After installing I can't even enter the bios setup. Can you collect dmesg from installer and later on output or screenshot during boot what it tries to do? The system contains the following components: - Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H - CPU: Intel Core i3 4130T - Memory: Kingston ValueRAM 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit I've configured the bios the following way: - Windows 8 Features: Other OS - Boot Mode Selection: Legacy Only - VGA Support: Auto (Enables legacy option) The system is working since I can install and run Ubuntu 14.04 AMD64 without problems. At least lspci -v output will be fine from some Linux Any suggestions on how to fix this? Kind regards, Martijn Rijkeboer
