Dear Peter, Thank you. There is probably such an option in BIOS. Unfortunately I do not have access to BIOS at the moment, because it is locked by administrators of my IT department.
Sincerely, Xianwen On 2/12/18, Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote: > On 02/12/18 18:07, Xianwen Chen wrote: >> Dear OpenBSD users, >> >> I am not able to run OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 on a Dell Latitude E6330. The >> installation was done by taking out the hard drive and hook it through >> a USB reader to another machine. >> >> I boot the hard drive through Legacy Boot menu. The boot process stops >> with >> root device: >> >> It is possible to boot through bsd.rd. However, the hard drive is not >> recognized there. > > I'm guessing that for some reason or the other the controller is set to > 'hardware raid' mode (which OpenBSD does not support) instead of a more > useful SATA mode: > >> pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801HBM RAID" rev 0x04: DMA, >> channel 0 wired to native-PCI, channel 1 wired to native-PCI >> pciide0: using apic 2 int 19 for native-PCI interrupt > > See if the BIOS offers a choice of modes for the controller, hopefully > there is a SATA option. > > - Peter > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. >
