dmesg|grep ^.d0 returns only "sd0" sysctl hw.disknames returns "sd0" and "rd0"
my machine is a 10.1 inch netbook Lenovo E10-30 running Intel Celeron N2830 Dual Core 64 bit. Do you think I should have used amd64 installation instead of i386? > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:51:41 +0100 > From: raimo+open...@erix.ericsson.se > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Installing OpenBSD 5.6 using a USB Flash drive > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:36:20AM +0000, A Y wrote: > > Hi all, > > I used the following command to create a USB flash drive installation media > > (with all file sets included): > > # dd if=/location/install56.fs of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m > > The USB flash drive was created successfully. > > The boot process from the USB was done. However, when we came to installing > > file sets, the following prompt was displayed: > > Location of sets? (disk http or 'done') [http] > > Now, what can I do to direct the installation process to look for the file > > sets in the USB flash drive? > > The documentation says: > > "Once the install kernel is booted, you have several options of where to get > > the install file sets: > > CD-ROM, HTTP, Local disk partition, NFS" (no mention to USB) > > As adviced, I did the following from the shell: > > cd /devsh MAKEDEV sd1 mkdir /mnt1mount /dev/sd1a /mnt1 > > But I got the following error: > > Device not configured > > Thank you > > Strange. I think 'disk' should be among the possible set locations. > > What kind of machine is this? > > Use the shell for some diagnostics. > Check your dmesg. Does the install kernel (bsd.rd) detect the flash drive? > Check what "sysctl hw.disknames" says. > > It seems the USB disk is not detected even though BIOS and boot(8) manages to > boot the kernel. If so there might be BIOS options that can help e.g > setting the disks to AHCI mode, depending on what kind of machine this is. > > -- > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
