Fwd: with utmost respect seeking pointers ...

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From: eelco van der vlugt <vitalae@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: with utmost respect seeking pointers ...
To: Lloyd <ng2d68@proton.me>

@ Lloyd : I've should in deed have started with my use case, this box is soley a dedicated data-dump.

My experience with OpenBSD as a daily has been excellent, such is the reason I hoped

to get all working with my fav, stable and secure OS. 

Indeed it will not really work as server since I just stores data, randomly is OL, 

connected with SSH and SFPT ... and most of time is just a metal small box ...

@CK,

the install img, when booting and disabling acpi, works. So installing and setting

up on the other connected USB just works, even the kernel random at the end.

When booting (encrypted) it works as is and gets through the password, also

I can boot into the UKC ... However after that the halting starts. Its getting stuck

and with AHCI probing halts just few seconds, last thing it halts is at :

spkr0 at pcppi0, just sits there blinking ...

The "fully working installation (on a N36 and N54)" boots also normally,

you get to the encryption, use passwd and it boots further, again AHCI probing

takes as expected a few other seconds, then it gets stuck at same spot :

spkr0 at pcppi0

In both cases I did try with boot -c and then switch off the "item" where it halted.

After rebooting It is blinking and even after waiting for very long times, just does not go any further.

When I disable AHCI it fails lm0,it*,aps0 and finally halts at skgpio0

I tried disabeling all these one by one, however it never gets any further with booting

anymore ... this was the end of my rope ...

The bios version is i think the latest available : 5.12 / object version ZA10A380, when in setup.

When booting : it says version 2.18.1263 , bios date 02/19/2020 vers: ZA10A380

@AM,

when it really just would be the controller that is the show stopper I could research this,

for the moment the booting does not end at this controller i think to have seen

@Lloyd

I have currently NetBSD working as is. So using for my use case that should be plenty,

considering I have no need for real server services / performance ...

However when it would be possible to use OpenBSD I would be even more happy, since

it is my preferred OS to go too. That is the frust, since normally most things work or

I get to work, here however my knowledge, talents are exceeded and that is why I

just is stuck and works like sort of a bone .. However, you are right ; I should not

dive any further into this rabit hole as is healthy ...

Maybe the xtra information offered helps , otherwise, I am stuck at NetBSD for my use case.

Thanks Gentlemen !

kindest regards,

eelco vitalis

On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 6:48 AM Lloyd <ng2d68@proton.me> wrote:

eelco van der vlugt wrote:

> Last month I gave away these servers to our IT community in the Netherlands , and treated myselve
> to a "final" solution to store my data. Thus I got an old Gen10 (NOT PLUS) Microserver. This however does
> NOT work out of the box with OpenBSD, even when i disable a whole lot it appaerantly is getting
> stuck during boot time at several places, I cannot get it to boot at all.

Microserver G10 officially supports Windows Server and Linux.

My recommendation is install a hypervisor on a supported OS. Then virtualize OpenBSD. I know this is heresy. But the shim keeps all the moving bits happy and you can move on with life.

On the flip side you gain lots of flexibility with storage and networking. Like using iSCSI over a virtual switch between VMs.

Regards
Lloyd