Hello,

I'm using the german provider strato.de and had to jump
through few hoops to install (unsupported by them)
OpenBSD  at the rented Celeron server (actually 2;
dmesg attached just FYI) - I followed the instructions at http://dettus.net

Now after few years I'd like to upgrade to their
"PowerServer L" with Opteron 1212 HE CPU
http://www.strato.de/server/dedicated/power/linux/

Is anybody already using such a server,
does it work with the latest OpenBSD?

(Also I guess I should take amd64 there?)

Thank you
Alex
OpenBSD 4.5-stable (GENERIC) #0: Sat May 30 21:04:23 CEST 2009
    afarber@hXXXXXX.serverkompetenz.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.40 GHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID,xTPR
real mem  = 536375296 (511MB)
avail mem = 510361600 (486MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 02/03/04, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb330, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf0800 (37 entries)
bios0: vendor Award Software International, Inc. version "6.00 PG" date 02/03/2004
bios0: Supermicro P4SBR/P4SBE
acpi0 at bios0: rev 0
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP
acpi0: wakeup devices HUB0(S5) USB0(S3) USB1(S3) MODM(S4) UAR1(S5) UAR2(S5) PCI0(S5)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 2 (HUB0)
acpicpu0 at acpi0
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 100 degC
acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1000 0xc9000/0x1000
cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82845 Host" rev 0x04
intelagp0 at pchb0
agp0 at intelagp0: aperture at 0xe3000000, size 0x400000
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Intel 82845 AGP" rev 0x04
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0x05
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
fxp0 at pci2 dev 6 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x08, ...
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Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:00:24 +0200

I have a "PowerServer M" with Opteron 1210 which runs fine with
4.7-stable and native(!) IPv6.

I used a slightly modified version of this:
http://wiki.bsdforen.de/howto/strato_mr2_openbsd
for initial installation procedure since dettus.net was not really

Yes.

Regards,

Joerg

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Does the "PowerServer M" still got the serial console option? A guy 
working at Strato told me that it was left out for marketing reasons to 
make the virtual servers look better. Ok, marketing and reason in one 
sentence does not make any sense. I still got the old "M" server with 
the athlon and I have to disable ACPI to make it run correctly.

Kind regards,
   Markus

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I was wondering that as well, since Strato doesn't mention
"Remote Console" in the description of its "PowerServer L" and "M".
And without that you probably can't install OpenBSD there?
(I've seen a web page though, which somehow used VMWare for that...)

After some consideration, I've decided to book their
"HighQ-Server SR-7" offer with Opteron Quad 1381 -
it costs only EUR 100 more per 12 months and has the
"Remote Console". I'm just a bit worried about their
"RAID-1" HDDs, whatever it means ("soft" or "hard"?)

Regards
Alex

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Markus Hennecke

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Alexander Farber

You can try using yaifo:

http://erdelynet.com/?s=yaifo

cheers,
david

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On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:04:14 +0200


That's just a software-raid1 preconfigured in their default install,
this basically just means "two harddrives".
For servers that use hardware raid controllers, those companies
advertise it in bold.

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Hi,

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:07:08 +0200

Yes, I used serial console for installation and it is still listed in


I did not need to disable ACPI.

Regards,

JC6rg

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I think I did not formulate the sentence right, he said that they left 
it out of the description because of marketing reasons. His server got a 
serial console too, but it is not on the page with the server features 

Which mainboard and CPU does your server got? Mine is still an Athlon 
3200+ with a mainboard that uses nvidia crap. Yes, I have been using 
this server a for some releases of OpenBSD :)

So I guess you got a newer model.

Kind regards,
   Markus

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Hi,

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:27:22 +0200

Oh I checked it and they seem to changed it.


I have no idea about the mainboard, dmesg says something about FUJITSU SIEMENS
D2461-C1
According to dmesg at least memory seems to be nvidia too.

Regards,

JC6rg

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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Markus Hennecke

Markus, how do you disable ACPI, with some Linux command?

Thanks
Alex

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I am running OpenBSD on that machine. It becomes very slow and spends 
most of its time in interrupts, unless ACPI is disabled in the kernel.

Kind regards,
   Markus

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Hello again,


I've now rented Strato's SR-7 server and since the dettus.net
method (cat floppy47.fs > /dev/sda) doesn't work for me,
I'm trying the qemu method you've suggested, but

  qemu -hda install.img -cdrom install47.iso -boot d

stucks during right at the beginning of the boot:

boot> booting cd0a:/4.7/amd64/bsd.rd: ...numbers....

Should I disable anything to make the kernel boot?

Thanks
Alex

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Below is the Linux dmesg output (pardon the blasphemy).
Any ideas please how to make amd64 install47.iso boot
at this remote server?

Thank you
Alex

Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 (mockbuild@builder10.centos.org) (gcc
version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30
EDT 2010
Command line: ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000ddfb0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ddfb0000 - 00000000ddfbe000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ddfbe000 - 00000000ddfe0000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ddfe0000 - 00000000ddfee000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ddff0000 - 00000000de000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ff700000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000120000000 (usable)
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM                                ) @ 0x00000000000faf80
ACPI: RSDT (v001 032510 RSDT1503 0x20100325 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x00000000ddfb0000
ACPI: FADT (v002 032510 FACP1503 0x20100325 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x00000000ddfb0200
ACPI: MADT (v001 032510 APIC1503 0x20100325 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x00000000ddfb0390
ACPI: MCFG (v001 032510 OEMMCFG  0x20100325 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x00000000ddfb0400
ACPI: OEMB (v001 032510 OEMB1503 0x20100325 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x00000000ddfbe040
ACPI: HPET (v001 032510 OEMHPET  0x20100325 MSFT 0x00000097) @
0x00000000ddfb48c0
ACPI: SSDT (v001 A M I  POWERNOW 0x00000001 AMD  0x00000001) @
0x00000000ddfb4900
ACPI: DSDT (v001  A96B3 A96B3210 0x00000210 INTL 0x20051117) @
0x0000000000000000
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000120000000
Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000120000000
Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range
disabling kdump
On node 0 totalpages: 1022763
  DMA zone: 2627 pages, ...
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First choose correct floppy image as stated in Installation manual
(previous mail from me), if it's not possible then try to boot from
network or from USB flash (how to prepare USB flash is in FAQ too).
And try both versions i386 and amd64 and send dmesg after that.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Alexander Farber

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber

Where on that page is sentence that you need to use cat floppy47.fs >
/dev/sda? Read this http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html before trying
someones old and untrusted methods and after that try to install


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Hello Thomas,


yes, yes and yes:

CentOS 5.5 64-bit at the "Strato HighQ-Server SR-7"
with AMD Quad Opteron 1381 and the qemu from CentOS packages.

It hangs when starting install47.iso (AMD64)
right after I enter ENTER or "-c" or "boot -c"
(I was hoping to enter "disable acpi"...)

Regards
Alex

PS: I couldn't change to Hetzner.de because
       I'm locked for 12 months by the Strato's contract

[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/png which had a name of qemu-haengt.png]

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Did you try install i386 version if there is same problem and did you
try latest snapshot in case that possible bug, if any, is repaired?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Alexander Farber

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Quit Strato.  Should be painless possible with the 
german 14-28 days money back guarantee when online ordered.

Isn't worth the effort.                                                               

Andri
--

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I can't quit them, I'm locked until summer 2011 there and
I need a faster server with OpenBSD for my Facebook game now.
So I'm trying to upgrade (i.e. change to their Quad AMD server)
but the remote OpenBSD install doesn't work for me :-(

I wish there would exist a Linux tool for writing bsd.rd
to /dev/hda or /dev/sda or whatever they have there.

Some kind of "depenguinator" for OpenBSD...

Regards
Alex


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On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alexander Farber

As already said on this thread, have you tried yaifo?

ciao,
david

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Hello,


actually I didn't "cat floppy47.fs > /dev/sda". What I tried
(numerous times) was:

wget -O- http://www.dettus.net/floppy35_seriell.fs.gz | gzip -d -f >/dev/sda

and (prepared my own AMD64 image with boot.conf):

wget -O- http://preferans.de/floppy47.fs.gz | gzip -d -f >/dev/sda

Regards
Alex

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Again. Read FAQ 4 where is correct setup how to prepare floppy for install.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Alexander Farber

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I don't understand, why you refer me to faq4. What do you mean?

I've mounted AMD64's floppy47.fs by vnconfig and have added
    set tty com0
    stty com0 57600

to etc/boot.conf there. Then I've written it to /dev/sda (s. below).

After that the remote server doesn't boot
(switched to "normal" mode) and the Strato
"remote console" just hangs

Regards
Alex



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But if I'm correct then /dev/sda is first SCSI disk in Linux
terminology and you are trying to write floppy image on it. Why?

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Alexander Farber

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:46:27 +0200

That used to work and was the easiest way to install ded's with serial.
Not anymore with recent releases. That's where he is stuck.

As so many people wrote before: yaifo.
One does not have to use ssh with yaifo, the serial works just fine.

(yaifo 4.6 ..., works also for 4.7 if you rename the tarballs and mod
index.txt.)

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