On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net>wrote:
> and no dmesg. that's the missing clue, of course. serial console > collection would be nice. > > Could you give me some hints about serial console thing? I dont have any experience with it. Do I need to have some special cables etc? I have two machines one linux the other openbsd. If no special cables necessary I will try to play with serial console thing. So still not able to show a dmesg. I'm guessing, as it sounds fairly new-ish, that you have an option to run > the SATA ports in AHCI mode, and obviously, you are not. I've found at > least some AHCI controllers in "compatibility" mode are between glacial and > unusable. Yours sounds like it was glacial during install and unusable > after boot. Dig through your BIOS for options to change the mode of the > SATA ports to AHCI ("enhanced" "good" "non-sucky" no idea what they'll > call it). You will know you are in AHCI mode if your disks come up as "sd" > rather than "wd" devices. > > > As you have guessed there is a switch in bios about sata modes. There are 3 sata modes: ide,ahci and raid. When ide selected the disc is recognised as wd and when ahci it is sd. I reinstalled to a different hard disk which is older, same thing happened.