On 7/26/26 10:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hello, thanks for reading this message.
Just a little ago I just discovered the OpenBSD OS and I really liked it. Then
I took my USB and tried to install it.
When it tells me which disk is the root disk it only shows the USB disk (if I
were to install it as a live system, it wouldn't even fit, 2GB and half
occupied by the installer).
I tried everything, shift RAID to AHCI (I checked and it was AHCI before),
disable secure boot, format the disk (completely empty), verify checksums, and
other things in the manual and FAQ, but the installer doesn't see my disk.
here is some info about the system
Using install.79 for AMD
HP Laptop 14-ck0xxx
Intel Core i5-852u CPU @
Disk: ADATA su650 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s 480GB (with AHCI controller ,says the Bios)
The USB I'm using for installing is a KingstonDT 101 || using UEFI (as the Bios
says)
unfortunately, none of that is terribly useful.
Hope you could solve my problem, or at least let me know if my hardware doesn't
have support by the moment.
Good to know about people doing an absolute amazing job at providing free
software for anybody, letting knowledge reach to all the world and providing
secure tools for computing.
Thanks.
if you can boot from the USB drive and see it during install, the USB is
working fine; we can ignore that.
The most common cause for a problem where a hard drive is not visible during install is
the controller being set to "RAID", rather than ACHI. You say that's not how
it is...but experience has indicated I shouldn't believe anything anyone tells me. :)
Also -- since you provided interpretations of the problem, rather than the
exact error message, there's possibility it's just a bit of confusion.
After that, we need to see the dmesg to see what is going wrong.
You should be able to snag a copy of the dmesg by booting from your USB drive,
then swapping in a small FAT formatted USB drive, mounting it, and doing a dmesg
>/mnt/dmesg.txt, then read that file from another computer.
Nick.
