> 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.
I find it strange that this isn't working, but I have tried just going for a standard OpenBSD install and also tested a standard FreeBSD install on two different SSDs - ignoring my original softraid setup, but no matter what I do, it just will not boot with either BSDs on either of those disks on this machine. I have tried placing each disk in each different SATA plug, also just to eliminate an issue with a specific SATA port, but it's the same result, no matter what port is set to boot from. I wiped the disks, installed Devuan Linux with GRUB on the same pair of disks, just to test, and it boots fine from either disk. So, for the moment I have given up running OpenBSD on SSDs on this box.
