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    • M
      madapter
      last edited by

      Looking at installing OpenBSD on the XG-7100. Can get it to boot up off the console, however, it seems to hang after mounting root, details below:

      Options used:
      stty com0 115200
      set tty com0

      Output:
      cannot open cd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory
      booting cd0a:/6.4/amd64/bsd.rd: 3511114+1500160+3892040+0+598016 [372715+111+441072+293323]=0xa208a0
      entry point at 0x1000158
      ¨
      åÉ¥¡Ñ(c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
      The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
      Copyright (c) 1995-2018 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. https://www.OpenBSD.org

      OpenBSD 6.4 (RAMDISK_CD) #348: Thu Oct 11 13:36:16 MDT 2018
      deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD
      real mem = 25743339520 (24550MB)
      avail mem = 24959352832 (23803MB)
      mainbus0 at root
      ..
      ...
      isa0 at mainbus0
      com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
      com0: console
      com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
      sdmmc0: can't enable card
      softraid0 at root
      scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets
      root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
      erase ^?, werase

      The console shows data if I plug in a USB device. Any suggestion or help would be appreciated.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        Hmm, that's the only console settings we use, nothing special there.

        You won't be able to configure the switch in OpenBSD.

        Steve

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          madapter
          last edited by

          Do you have the extra memory and m.2 option installed on your configuration?

          I'm okay with the switch being just a "switch", are the ports lagg on the switch by default or 2 single connections to the switch?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            For security purposes all the ports on the switch are disabled at boot. Otherwise the default WAN and LAN would be connected together before the config was loaded!
            If you boot any other OS on the XG-7100 the Eth ports will not pass traffic without a switch driver.

            I don't have either and m.2 SSD or the extra RAM but neither should affect the console options.

            Steve

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              madapter
              last edited by madapter

              I see so the ethernet ports are completely disabled.

              Removing the m.2 is straight forward. However, when I remove the RAM the system doesn't seem to power up. Is there something special that needs to be done?

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Hmm, like doesn't even run Coreboot?

                When you add additional RAM it has to run a retraining process for it that can take some time. I'm not aware of needing to do that if you remove it again but personally I've never tried that.

                You might try resetting the NVRAM so it retrains again. Set jumpers J10 and J11 to position 2-3 then power on the box. It will power up for a few seconds then power off. Remove the jumpers (or replace to 1-2) and power on again.

                Steve

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                  madapter
                  last edited by

                  Our XG-7100 did not ship with jumpers but found 2, placed them on the J10 and J11 2-3 block. Did nothing it didn't get into coreboot (fan never turns off from high spin).

                  Are there any other headers of interest?

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Not for clearing the NVRAM.
                    With jumpers there on 2-3 I expect it to power on with fans at full for a few seconds then power off to indicate it has done the reset.
                    I assume you did that with the additional RAM removed? And adding the jumpers made no difference, that's the same behaviour you experienced just by removing the RAM?

                    Steve

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                    • M
                      madapter
                      last edited by

                      Resetting it before removing the RAM got into core boot but it looks like I'm still halting in the same location.

                      root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
                      erase ^?, werase

                      What version of OpenBSD did you try this with and did you boot from a DVD or USB?

                      BTW Thanks for the help so far!

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        I didn't, I have never tried it with OpenBSD. The point where it's stopping looks like the wrong console set as primary. That going entirely from FreeBSD experience but the fact it still shows device attach messages also indicates that.
                        In FreeBSD/pfSense we don't set anything beyond comconsole and the com speed. It may be necessary to set something else in OpenBSD.

                        Looks like you might have to edit /etc/ttys to actually get a login prompt there:
                        http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SerCon

                        Steve

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                          madapter
                          last edited by

                          Thanks, been through that at the start.

                          Is there another serial header on the board that we can use? If so can you provide the header block and the pinout info?

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by stephenw10

                            SoC UART1 is in pins 3 and 4 of J2. But that's not the issue here the serial console is working for the boot output just not the interactive console. I'd double check /etc/ttys.

                            Steve

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              Our development guys tell me that retraining for the RAM can take up to 10mins so that's likely the problem there. Just wait longer if you need to remove the RAM. Or to reinstall it if it has retrained without it.

                              Steve

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                                madapter
                                last edited by

                                Confirmed it varies but up to 10 minutes is what I'm seeing. I guess 5 minutes wait isn't enough sometimes. Still no luck in getting OpenBSD installed.

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                                • RicoR
                                  Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                                  last edited by

                                  Wouldn't be FreeBSD the better choice to run on the XG-7100 anyway?

                                  -Rico

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                                    madapter
                                    last edited by

                                    It really comes down to what you're doing with the XG-7100. In general FreeBSD would be sufficient, but at the same time we're trying a few other OS to see what the limitations of the XG-7100 so that we can for production use under different scenarios.

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                                      float
                                      last edited by

                                      Sorry to bump this topic. I'm also trying to install OpenBSD.

                                      @madapter Does your system only have the eMMc 32GB or a m.2?

                                      I noticed that OpenBSD does not detect the eMMc.

                                      FreeBSD does:
                                      mmcsd0: 31GB <MMCHC BJTD4R 0.3 SN D071F424 MFG 01/2018 by 21 0x0000> at mmc0 200.0MHz/8bit/8192-block
                                      mmcsd0boot0: 4MB partition 1 at mmcsd0
                                      mmcsd0boot1: 4MB partition 2 at mmcsd0
                                      mmcsd0rpmb: 4MB partition 3 at mmcsd0

                                      Could it be that because of the lack of detection of the eMMC, the system thinks it doens't have a HDD to install and thus does not show the install option?

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        You are seeing exactly the same output?

                                        It still looks like it's trying to use the VGA console to me.

                                        Steve

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                                          float
                                          last edited by float

                                          Yes, but eMMc is not mentioned:

                                          OpenBSD 6.7 (RAMDISK_CD) #177: Thu May  7 11:19:02 MDT 2020
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD
real mem = 8562393088 (8165MB)
avail mem = 8298868736 (7914MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0x7f6d7020 (7 entries)
bios0: vendor coreboot version "ADI_PLCC-01.00.00.11" date 01/08/2019
bios0: Silicom, Ltd. 80300-0134-g01
acpi0 at bios0: ACPI 3.0
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT MCFG TCPA APIC DMAR
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 4 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3558 @ 2.20GHz, 2195.39 MHz, 06-5f-01
cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,SDBG,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,RDRAND,NXE,PAGE1GB,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,3DNOWP,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,TSC_ADJUST,SMEP,ERMS,MPX,RDSEED,SMAP,CLFLUSHOPT,PT,SHA,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,SENSOR,ARAT,XSAVEOPT,XSAVEC,XGETBV1,XSAVES
cpu0: 2MB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: cannot disable silicon debug
cpu0: apic clock running at 25MHz
cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, C-substates=0.2.0.2, IBE
cpu at mainbus0: not configured
cpu at mainbus0: not configured
cpu at mainbus0: not configured
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins, remapped
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP01)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP02)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP03)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP04)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 2 (RP05)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (RP06)
acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 3 (RP07)
acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus 4 (RP08)
acpicpu at acpi0 not configured
"PNP0C0C" at acpi0 not configured
"PNP0A08" at acpi0 not configured
"PNP0003" at acpi0 not configured
acpicmos0 at acpi0
"INTC3000" at acpi0 not configured
"BOOT0000" at acpi0 not configured
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel C3000 Host" rev 0x11
pchb1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "Intel C3000 GLREG" rev 0x11
"Intel C3000 RCEC" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured
ppb0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Intel C3000 PCIE" rev 0x11
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
"Intel C3000 QAT" rev 0x11 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
ppb1 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Intel C3000 PCIE" rev 0x11
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
ppb2 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "Intel C3000 PCIE" rev 0x11
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
ppb3 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Intel C3000 PCIE" rev 0x11
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
"Intel C3000 SMBus" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 not configured
ahci0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Intel C3000 AHCI" rev 0x11: msi, AHCI 1.3.1
scsibus0 at ahci0: 32 targets
xhci0 at pci0 dev 21 function 0 "Intel C3000 xHCI" rev 0x11: msi, xHCI 1.0
usb0 at xhci0: USB revision 3.0
uhub0 at usb0 configuration 1 interface 0 "Intel xHCI root hub" rev 3.00/1.00 addr 1
ppb4 at pci0 dev 22 function 0 "Intel C3000 PCIE" rev 0x11
pci5 at ppb4 bus 5
ix0 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Intel X553 SFP+" rev 0x11: msi, address XX
ix1 at pci5 dev 0 function 1 "Intel X553 SFP+" rev 0x11: msi, address XX
ppb5 at pci0 dev 23 function 0 "Intel C3000 PCIE" rev 0x11
pci6 at ppb5 bus 6
ix2 at pci6 dev 0 function 0 "Intel X553 Backplane" rev 0x11: msi, address XX
ix3 at pci6 dev 0 function 1 "Intel X553 Backplane" rev 0x11: msi, address XX
"Intel C3000 ME HECI" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 not configured
sdhc0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel C3000 eMMC" rev 0x11: apic 2 int 16
sdhc0: SDHC 3.0, 200 MHz base clock
sdmmc0 at sdhc0: 8-bit, sd high-speed, mmc high-speed, dma
"Intel C3000 LPC" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 not configured
"Intel C3000 PMC" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 not configured
"Intel C3000 SMBus" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 31 function 4 not configured
"Intel C3000 SPI" rev 0x11 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 not configured
isa0 at mainbus0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com0: console
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
sdmmc0: can't enable card
softraid0 at root
scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets
PXE boot MAC address 0XXXX, interface ix2
root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
erase ^?, werase
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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Nope seems to hang just at that point when it's writing out the install menu. Booting verbose is also no help. Google is failing me. Seems surprising no one else has hit this on other devices...

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