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Am Sonntag, 8. April 2018, 13:35:02 CEST schrieb Wols Lists: |
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> On 08/04/2018 00:18, Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> > Hi list |
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> > |
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> > I have a bit of a weird issue. I recently acquired a used server (Fujitsu |
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> > Primergy TX140 S1) via a friend of mine. I have Gentoo installed on it |
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> > now |
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> > and overall it works fine save for one perplexing issue [0]: The |
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> > bootloader |
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> > hangs when booting without a keyboard attached. I tried it with both GRUB |
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> > and systemd-boot (which works nicely in combination with kernel-install); |
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> > both only work with a keyboard attached. GRUB hangs when the countdown |
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> > starts, while systemd-boot hangs when the cursor first appears, but |
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> > before the boot entries are listed. In both cases the cursor freezes. |
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> I can't help with a solution, but this is actually quite a common |
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> problem. I remember ages ago copious reports of computer rooms with |
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> these boxes that share one keyboard, mouse and screen amongst several |
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> computers, and there were loads of complaints about systems refusing to |
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> boot. |
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I can't help but wonder if these kinds of servers only tested in setups with |
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KVM switches. One thing I kept reading about was how people have several |
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servers hooked up to these, so maybe these types of servers often simply |
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aren't tested without a keyboard. |
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> Go in ti the bios settings, and see if there's something about |
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> keyboards. I really can't remember but there was something about a |
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> missing keyboard triggering a bios boot error - cue all the jokes about |
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> "keyboard missing, press F1 to continue". Actually, if you search on |
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> that message, you might find something ... |
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Yeah, that was the first thing I tried, but there are no such settings. |
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Though I never thought to try disabling the USB ports. |
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*tries it out now* |
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Nope, I had set it to "Disable all unused ports", but that didn't change |
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anything. Neither did deactivating the serial port. That makes the issue |
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much weirder in my eyes, since it's clearly intended to be able to boot the |
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server without any USB devices attached. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Greetings |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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