Re: installing on a VPS

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 05:38:14PM -0400, Al Zick wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for emailing me.
> 
> After many failures, I finally found a way to get the NetBSD kernel to boot.
> Rackspace would not boot the xen kernel. It would crash before it was
> completely loaded. The generic kernel boots.
> 
> I thought that at this point I would be through the worst of installing
> NetBSD on rackspace, but there is a new issue. The network seems to stop
> working for a few seconds and then it goes back to normal. Checking the
> dmesg I get this:
> 
> # dmesg | grep re0
> re0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: RealTek 8139C+ 10/100BaseTX (rev. 0x20)
> re0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 32
> re0: Ethernet address bc:76:4e:20:7a:b8
> re0: using 64 tx descriptors
> rlphy0 at re0 phy 0: Realtek internal PHY
> re0: watchdog timeout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> re0: watchdog timeout
> 
> After searching about this, it seems this exists in more than just NetBSD.
> 
> Here is a link:
> http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/XenServer-and-re0-watchdog-timeout-td219092.html
> 
> From what they say the best way to solve this problem is to change the
> network card that the virtualizer is emulating. I put in a support ticket at
> rackspace to see if they can do this. I am not sure that this will be an
> option with rackspace. Is there a better solution?

You can try disabling the re driver in the kernel (either by rebuilding a
kernel, or with userconf). The rtk driver should then be used.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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