On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 09:08:26PM +0000, Martin wrote: > Turns out this machine, for some reason, simply cannot boot of SSDs with > neither OpenBSD or FreeBSD on the box. Only spinning drives work. > > It's an old Dell Inc. OptiPlex 980. > > I suspect there is some issue with the BIOS of the machine and the BSD > bootloaders as Linux with GRUB works on SSDs.
FWIW, my current desktop which is a Dell OptiPlex 745 is booting off an SSD. joji@surya$ dmesg | grep -iE "optiplex|Samsung" bios0: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 745 wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB> joji@surya$ uname -a OpenBSD surya 7.5 GENERIC.MP#82 amd64 Don't know if your OptiPlex 980 is newer than mine.
