Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Re: Problems with a fresh install not finding SSD drive over floppy img HTML5/KVM

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 03:25:30PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Chris Bennett <cpb_misc@bennettconstruction.us> wrote:
>
> > After looking over the list, it looks like many SSD's have compatibility
> > problems, so I'm just going to switch over to a spinning drive.
>
> That is news to us.
>

I am also more than a little shocked by this.

From amd64 7.0 -current floppy img:

OpenBSD 7.0-current Ramdisk #129 Tue Nov 30 11:03
Supermicro X11SSD-F
cpu0 Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 3.80Ghz

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From an auto-installed FreeBSD 12.x by the company:

Samsung SSD 860 Pro 256GB RVM01B6Q ACS-4 ATA SATA 3.x device

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Back to OpenBSD, amd64 shows sd0 as the floppy img
i386 (7.0 release) does not mention sd0 at all

I could not get network up at all under either OpenBSD or FreeBSD (zero
experience with FreeBSD).

However, I did get an error I have never seen before.
When they (supposedly) changed boxes, I kept the same /29 IP block.
I accidentally assigned the static IP addresses to em0 instead of em1.
Then I added it correctly to em1.

STDERR constantly repeated that I had assigned the same IP to both.
Bringing both down stopped the error.

However, I did not touch igb0 (em0) under FreeBSD. After changing igb1
(em1) to the correct address, I got the same error in FreeBSD.
Huh?

The company refuses to change the SSD to the spinning drive, but I can
add it as a second drive. This was a special offer, so I can't complain.
I looked at the specials again. All are only with this drive.

I am at a complete loss here about what's going on. I specifically
grabbed this to be able to run -current OpenBSD.
I previously ran this exact type of box with this company before with a
1TB drive. So I have used this IPMI before.

--
Frustrated,
Chris Bennett

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