[solved] can't get a Hetzner dedicated server to boot

toralf · Last edited by toralf on Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:44 am; edited 2 times in total

A new HW (Intel Xeon E5-1650V3) does not boot - seems to hang either in grub step or in an early boot phase - because no log messages are in /var/log.
There was no problem in setting up an hardened Gentoo at an i7-3930 2 years ago.

The problem is the kernel config, something either with "x2apic is defined in BIOS but the kernel can't enable it" or with the TIMER/LAPIC.

https://zwiebeltoralf.de/pub/Screenshot_20181006_101121.png
https://zwiebeltoralf.de/pub/Screenshot_20181006_110922.png

Does anybody has a recent kernel config which is known to work ?

DONAHUE · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 2:57 am Post subject:

What appears on the terminal during the boot?
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toralf · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:44 am Post subject:

got it now - used a config 4.18.1 from Hetzner and a 4.18.12 kernel -.