Re: Bullseye (mostly) not booting on Proliant DL380 G7

["Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>]

On 29.06.2021 15:29, Claudio Kuenzler wrote:

Hi Georgi

I noticed that kernel logs you posted are between 62nd - 64th second
after kernel loading. Why is the boot process so slow?

Due to a disabled SATA device in BIOS, the kernel tries to do an ERST and SRST and does this until 60s after boot. 

That's OK, it's been the same on Buster, too.

 

If you think that video driver can be an issue then you can try to
configure the system not to use framebuffer (if the system
 doesn't use GUI).

Could you tell me how? Or a reference to it?

In the meantime I re-configured grub to boot with the following parameters:

debug rootwait earlyprintk=vga,keep earlycon pause_on_oops=5 panic=60 no_console_suspend

The last two boots now show a crash in the console - even with firmware-amd-graphics and firmware-linux-nonfree installed.

[ 69.546005 ] asm_call_irq_on_stack+0x12/0x20

[ 69.546005 ] </IRQ>

[ 69.546006 ] common_interrupt+0xb0/0x130

[ 69.546006 ] asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40

[ 69.546006 ] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xc4/0x350

    Trace dump suggests that crash occurs while executing cpuidle
    module.
    Try to boot with "intel_pstate=force" kernel parameter [1] to force
    different CPU driver (if CPU supports it) and\or "cpuidle.off=1" to
    disable cpuidle subsystem.
    
    Also, it is a good practice to update BIOS\firmware of a server. [2]
    By doing this you might solve a lot of issues with low-level next to
    hardware problems, like these.
    And installation of "intel-microcode" package should be a good idea.
    
    
    [1]
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.html?#kernel-command-line-options-for-intel-pstate
    [2]
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/km/product/4091567/hpe-proliant-dl380-g7-server-models#t=DriversandSoftware&f:@kmswsoftwaretypekey=[swt8000012]
-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

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