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OpenBSD 5.3 installation on SuperMicro system board
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I'm wondering if anyone has any experience in running OpenBSD on a SuperMicro system board. My board is: http://www.supermicro.nl/products/mo...C600/X9SRi.cfm and have set it up to do RAID1. My issue is that the RAID volume doesn't detect..... I'm actually trying to do the install from the "live-usb" version of OpenBSD so I don't know if that's got something to do with it or if simply OpenBSD doesn't have the correct driver for the RAID controller?? {haven't checked the HCL yet} I actually haven't tested using AHCI though that will be my next step. The BIOS definitely detects the drives which are Corsair 120GB SSD's hooked onto the SATA III connectors. Also I'm not sure if the USB installer is using a 32bit or 64bit kernel as there is no definitive reference anywhere, however, it seems to hint at 32bit by stating i386 so I don't know if that's the issue...? Maybe by using Live-usb I've made my life more complicated then it has to be however, since I couldn't find a USB installer image of OpenBSD 5.3 x64 I thought this was my best bet - I'm not a fan of CD installs though might have to go that way if necessary. Would anyone be able to give me any advice? Thanks. [EDIT] can confirm AHCI mode working..... am wondering if then the RAID isn't supported? :-( would need to setup SoftRAID instead at that stage. [EDIT] just did a demo install using one disk and AHCI mode.... after boot into OpenBSD the system just shuts off?? Maybe it's using 32bit after all and is incompatible with the systemboard.... Last edited by sparky; 17th October 2013 at 08:29 PM. |
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Just a bit of digging here and looks like Intel E5 devices now supported:
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however is that just cpu and chipset and/or RAID controller too??? Ok so now I think I'm gona try a CD....... and do it the "by book" way and see if that works.... though this is probably easier then then my SPARC net install - that took a while to figure out how to do! |
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http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive My suggestion is to install a recent snapshot of -current. Snapshots of -current can be found at /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64 at most mirror sites. If you continue to experience problems & decide to escalate this as an official problem report: http://www.openbsd.org/report.html ...the first question the project developers will ask is whether you have tested with a recent snapshot. |
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Booting from USB requires an existing OpenBSD system, in order to create a bootable USB drive -- whether a real drive or a stick, if the i386/amd64 BIOS can boot from USB, that's all that's needed. The bootable drive can be created with fdisk(8), disklabel(8), newfs(8), and installboot(8), and have a copy of the bsd.rd kernel on it. It need not be a complete OpenBSD system. Quote:
Edited to add: The installboot program requires the admin to have previously copied the second stage bootloader (boot) to the drive. It installs and then configures the first stage bootloader (biosboot) in the Partition Boot Record (PBR). Both of these files are stored in /usr/mdec with the installboot program. Last edited by jggimi; 18th October 2013 at 11:25 AM. |
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Thanks for the responses!!
@ocicat the image I was using is this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/live...mg.7z/download Download USB Install disk image But I'll give 5.4 a go and see if that's any better though not sure how stable it's gona be, however from www.openbsd.org I see that it's almost getting to become RELEASE version. @jggimi Thanks for the tips.... I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in my last posting which probably made me sound clueless on x86/amd64 systems however, I have a substantial Linux/FreeBSD based network on x64 architecture.... just get into <panic> mode with OpenBSD for some reason though at present I run it on SPARC as my primary router/firewall/etc..... Quote:
The issue of shutting down straight away maybe compatibility or simply a bad checksum of the image.... I'll go down the official route of installing from CD for now and seeing if that makes things better, though will be 5.4 current over 5.3 (just for later + maybe more drivers etc...). Though I really don't like CD's.... it's such a waste of money/material.... but then I want/need the system up and running so don't wana spend time building my own USB boot disk. |
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4.1 - Overview of the OpenBSD installation procedure |
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Have gone disk method now and install 5.4 x64 (AMD64 though always use term x64 to indicate 64bit Intel/AMD - so not sticking to common denomination). 5.4 is stable though still not capable of detecting the RAID setup.... :-( Have installed using AHCI (hot swap) method provided by system board and seems fine. Just wondering if I should contact the devs about the RAID or if I should just go ahead and use the SoftRAID mentioned from here: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.c...=4&format=html ?? Regards. |
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Yes, the release of OpenBSD 5.4-release is currently scheduled for the end of October. I have not read of any manufacturing issues in the official mailing lists to indicate that the current release date will not be honored. Outside of CD manufacturing issues, there shouldn't be, because the code base for OpenBSD 5.4-release was frozen mid-August because of the lead time needed to get CD's pressed before the 1 November release date. A new CVS tag in the code repository was created at the point of the code freeze. Having said that, development of OpenBSD continues at the head of CVS. This is where snapshots of -current are created. Recent snapshots of -current will contain ~1.5 months of additional work past what is in 5.4-release. There is no final testing being made on 5.4-release. As far as the project developers are concerned, 5.4-release is history. Some may say ancient history. The value of official releases is that they are known tagged points in CVS. A modicum of time is spent on ensuring that releases work over & above any particular snapshot. Snapshots of -current are known only if the source code is downloaded at the same time, because snapshots are not tagged. If a problem is found in a snapshot, knowing what the code is which generated the problem is not entirely clear unless the head of CVS was checked at the same time. At some periodic time ( usually daily for the i386 & amd64 platforms...), snapshots are created from whatever code is found at the head of CVS. The times between snapshots for the other platforms are typically longer. The point to take away from this discussion is that the latest code is always in -current. Although at the time of writing, OpenBSD 5.4-release is still to be officially released, snapshots of -current today are still newer than the impending release to be made at the end of October. |
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Thanks so much for the information..... I really appreciate that!
I guess it's part of the reason why I always panic with OpenBSD as it's so involved and if one doesn't follow the system regularly, one can easily get lost. Having glossed through: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html it looks like I am on "stable"?? And according the guide I can upgrade to "current" using: Code:
Following -current In this case, we will assume we are using a public AnonCVS server, anoncvs@anoncvs.example.org:/cvs. We will also assume you are using sh(1) as your command shell, if you are using a different shell, you will have to adjust some of these commands. To checkout a -current CVS src tree, you can use the following: # cd /usr # export CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.example.org:/cvs # cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src Once you have a tree, you can update it at a later time: # cd /usr/src # export CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.example.org:/cvs # cvs -d$CVSROOT up -Pd At the beginning of Section 5. it talks about bug fixes and patches applied to 'stable' and 'release' branches. Basically is 'current' ready to be run in production? - or should I just continue running 5.4 and send my dmesg to the email given in the FAQ and hope that in the later releases the driver or fix gets implemented? |
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And that's why you have questions.
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Source upgrades to -current are only supported when built from the most recent snapshot. The procedure to follow, to use -current, is to... Install the most recent snapshot, or upgrade to the most recent snapshot. If the latter, you must review the Following -current FAQ and make any manual changes required. Most of these changes will be included in the upgrade ... but not all. In particular, the time_t change will require an effort on your part to upgrade through. That set of instructions you should not gloss over. Once at -current, you may either upgrade from snapshot to snapshot, or you may maintain via source. Last edited by jggimi; 18th October 2013 at 03:12 PM. Reason: clarity, typo |
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So according to my thorough reading of these: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade53.html http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html I have installed a 'snapshot' of OpenBSD 5.4.... using the install54.iso - am I correct? So would I need to upgrade this as it looks to me like the latest snapshot, having taken it off my local mirrors: /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ directed as suggested earlier. But more to the point.... if the h/w based RAID subsystem is not being detected by the installer then it doesn't matter if I run current or snapshot or release does it? As from my (lack of) understanding there is no install.iso for 'current' as it's distributed via CVS, so my only options seem to be using either SoftRAID which reading through the link I posted above needs to be setup pre-install (again to my (lack of) understanding :-) ) or doing a simple: Code:
dd if=/disk1 of=/disk2 Btw, thanks for everyone's patience..... I found out the hard way about reading through the docs multiple times in order to find out how to do things when I did my SPARC install ages ago. I'm just happy that no one has got frustrated with my lack of understanding/knowledge yet - or at least that they're being extra nice about it :-) [EDIT] Bottom line is that OpenBSD 5.4 is installed at present and seems to be pretty stable.... my worry is not about which version am running but the H/W RAID controller. If it really makes no difference as to the detection of it then I can just continue from where I am now building up the system and installing it into the network. Last edited by sparky; 18th October 2013 at 03:41 PM. |
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Such a shame about the RAID but the /alroot sounds like a good idea.... though will need to do reading on it :-)
Many thanks for all ideas and experienced insight! I really need to spend more time with OpenBSD, the problem is that it's just too stable; once you configure and get it running that's it you don't need to touch your box in months unless something needs configuring or upgrading. |
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For a RAID1 array, though, what would your hardware RAID be doing for you that softraid(4) doesn't do? Remember, hardware RAID is just software RAID in firmware. |
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Set RAID up in the BIOS then install OpenBSD onto the RAID volume and I'm done! Time for configuring and building. :-) This might sound like a really dumb question after everything that has been said/read/ and posted but is it possible to install SoftRAID post install? Of course Google'ing is my next step after pressing submit but just wanted to see..... [EDIT] Yep looks like a really dumb question I ask.... :-( Seems to need to be done first: http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/insta...-softraid.html |
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Yes, you can create softraid arrays at any time. FAQ 14 will be your friend. Note these additional comments regarding RAID, from FAQ 14:
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Yep... those comments are good... RAID1 was what I am after anyway. Otherwise all my backups are kept in 2 places; a large ZFS pool running on FreeBSD and another drive over NFS as fulltime "disaster recovery". Ok off to the wiki for me :-)
[EDIT] I mean FAQ... |
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