Failed to boot OpenBSD 8.2 32bit on InstaGENI xen-vms

[Xuan Liu]

Hello,

From Flack, i see that OpenBSD 8.2 is not supported for xen-vms on Utah InstaGENI Rack, but it's available for other racks. so I tried to create one VM with OpenBSD 8.2, but I got email saying that the node was failed to boot. 

I have tried this on a few different racks, but got no luck. Please see the links with details below:

ku instaGENI: https://www.instageni.ku.gpeni.net/spewlogfile.php3?logfile=4e0355b997468bae2fbfbddfd66161e4

cornell instaGENI: https://www.geni.it.cornell.edu/spewlogfile.php3?logfile=6b08515cc78c21024884d4d8c1891e9d

illinois instaGENI: https://www.instageni.illinois.edu/spewlogfile.php3?logfile=e25587d9af0efca49bd07bba40c06e5f

Then I saw FreeBSD 8.2 is also available for raw PCs, and I'm able to load it to a raw PC at Utah ProtoGENI, and login to the node. 

Here is the login info:

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dhcp89-69-127:~ xliu$ ssh xua...@pc242.emulab.net

Last login: Thu Jul  3 07:43:34 2014 from 128.89.69.127

Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994

The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p10 (TESTBED-POLLING-GENERIC) #0: Wed Sep  4 09:54:22 MDT 2013

Welcome to FreeBSD!

You can automatically download and install binary packages by doing

pkg_add -r <URL>

where you replace <URL> with the URL to the package.  This will also

automatically install the packages the package you download is dependent on

(ie, the packages it needs in order to work.)

[xuanliu@pc ~]$ uname -a

FreeBSD pc.xuan-wiki-prep1.ch-geni-net.emulab.net 8.3-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p10 #0: Wed Sep  4 09:54:22 MDT 2013     ro...@node.freebsd83-node.testbed.emulab.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TESTBED-POLLING-GENERIC  i386

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I also tried to load FreeBSD 7.2 on on raw PC from the Utah ProtoGENI cluster, and I was able to login to this node. However I got an email saying "node failed to boot". Please see the link bellow for details

https://www.emulab.net/spewlogfile.php3?logfile=2e43e30d9544bc8081c4b155190c62eb

and here is the login info from terminal:

dhcp89-69-127:~ xliu$ ssh xua...@pc247.emulab.net

Last login: Thu Jul  3 07:50:55 2014 from 128.89.69.127

Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994

The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7 (TESTBED) #0: Mon Mar 22 17:27:01 MDT 2010

Welcome to FreeBSD!

Want colour in your directory listings?  Use "ls -G".  "ls -F" is also useful,

and they can be combined as "ls -FG".

[xuanliu@pc-0 ~]$ uname -a

FreeBSD pc-0.xuan-wiki-prep1.ch-geni-net.emulab.net 7.2-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7 #0: Mon Mar 22 17:27:01 MDT 2010     ro...@node.freebsd7-node.testbed.emulab.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TESTBED  i386

Thank you!

Xuan

[Leigh Stoller]

> From Flack, i see that OpenBSD 8.2 is not supported for xen-vms on Utah
> InstaGENI Rack, but it's available for other racks. so I tried to create
> one VM with OpenBSD 8.2, but I got email saying that the node was failed
> to boot.
>
> I have tried this on a few different racks, but got no luck. Please see
> the links with details below:

Hi. Your only choice for BSD of any kind on IG racks, is FBSD82-STD. There
was a problem that was preventing it from booting properly in XEN VM. That
has just been fixed on all of the racks, so please give it another try.

I will also push out our FBSD92-STD image to all of the racks later this
week ...

Thanks!
Leigh