Re: ssd drive disappears when booting
On 2/17/19 2:57 AM, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 01:23:44AM +, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: ... >> This sounds like the problem that I (and others) have seen when the hard >> drive is set to RAID in the Bios/firmware. Try setting it to AHCI if your >> bios lets you. >> > > wow, that was exactly it! i don;t understand how it was running one > minute, and then changed, but setting the drive to ahci worked (it was > indeed parked on raid). > > thanks so much - you just saved me a ton of hassle. > > jmc > > OpenBSD 6.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #713: Wed Feb 13 22:35:28 MST 2019 > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP ... > bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "A15" date 08/15/2012 Your CMOS battery is dying. I've got a Dell a bit newer than yours with the same problem -- under circumstances I haven't quite figured out, the CMOS resets to default, which, oddly, is RAID. Nick.
Re: ssd drive disappears when booting
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 01:23:44AM +, tfrohw...@fastmail.com wrote: > On February 16, 2019 6:41:49 PM UTC, Jason McIntyre > wrote: > >hi. hoping someone knows what's happening here... > > > >i installed -current amd64 on an old dell latitude e6320 laptop. > >it ran fine for a few hours, but on a subsequent reboot the disk (an > >ssd) > >seemed to disappear: > > > > ... > > softraid0 at root > > scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets > > root device:<- hit > > use one of: exit em0 iwn0 > > root device: > > > >i.e. it fails to find sd0. i thought it was a hardware issue. > >i don;t want to open this thing up. but i thought initially the drive > >was > >either dead or somehow disconnected. but at the bios level, the machine > >reports the disk is ok (i ran some bios diagnostics on it). > > > >so what i tried: > > > > boot> > > boot hd0a:/bsd > > > >that just fails in the same way. > > > > boot> machine diskinfo > > DiskBIOS# TypeCylsHeads SecsFlags Checksum > > hd0 0x80label 1023255 63 0x2 0xd53d9ad8 > > > >that looks ok. > > > > boot> ls > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 . > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 .. > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 home > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 tmp > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 usr > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 var > > -rwx-- 0,0 15696910 bsd > > -rw--- 0,0 15696910 bsd.rd > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 altroot > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1024 bin > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 19456dev > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 etc > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 mnt > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 root > > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 sbin > > -rw-r--r-- 0,0 578 .cshrc > > -rw-r--r-- 0,0 468 .profile > > stat(hda0/./sys): No such file or directory > > -rw-r--r-- 0,0 82320boot > > -rw--- 0,0 15579327 bsd.sp > > -rw--- 0,0 15714870 bsd.booted > > > >so at this level i can see the disk. but when i boot it's not found. > > > >trying fresh installs just end the same way - it fails to locate the > >disk. so i can;t use anything like fdisk to dig around. > > > >any opinions on whether the issue is with the disk, or whether there's > >anything else i can try? > > > >sorry i have no up to date dmesg for this machine ;( > > > >thanks, > >jmc > > This sounds like the problem that I (and others) have seen when the hard > drive is set to RAID in the Bios/firmware. Try setting it to AHCI if your > bios lets you. > wow, that was exactly it! i don;t understand how it was running one minute, and then changed, but setting the drive to ahci worked (it was indeed parked on raid). thanks so much - you just saved me a ton of hassle. jmc OpenBSD 6.4-current (GENERIC.MP) #713: Wed Feb 13 22:35:28 MST 2019 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 8448847872 (8057MB) avail mem = 8183095296 (7804MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xf2120 (106 entries) bios0: vendor Dell Inc. version "A15" date 08/15/2012 bios0: Dell Inc. Latitude E6320 acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC TCPA SSDT MCFG HPET BOOT SSDT SSDT SLIC acpi0: wakeup devices HDEF(S4) GLAN(S4) PXSX(S4) RP01(S4) PXSX(S4) RP02(S4) PXSX(S4) RP04(S4) PXSX(S4) RP05(S4) PXSX(S4) RP06(S4) PXSX(S4) RP07(S4) PXSX(S4) RP08(S4) [...] acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2494.69 MHz, 06-2a-07 cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,NXE,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,L1DF,SSBD,SENSOR,ARAT,XSAVEOPT,MELTDOWN cpu0: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 10 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, C-substates=0.2.1.1.2, IBE cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2494.33 MHz, 06-2a-07 cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,NXE,RDTSCP,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,IBRS,IBPB,STIBP,L1DF,SSBD,SENSOR,ARAT,XSAVEOPT,MELTDOWN cpu1: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu1: smt 0, core 1, package 0 cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2494.34 MHz, 06-2a-07 cpu2: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PC
Re: ssd drive disappears when booting
On February 16, 2019 6:41:49 PM UTC, Jason McIntyre wrote: >hi. hoping someone knows what's happening here... > >i installed -current amd64 on an old dell latitude e6320 laptop. >it ran fine for a few hours, but on a subsequent reboot the disk (an >ssd) >seemed to disappear: > > ... > softraid0 at root > scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets > root device:<- hit > use one of: exit em0 iwn0 > root device: > >i.e. it fails to find sd0. i thought it was a hardware issue. >i don;t want to open this thing up. but i thought initially the drive >was >either dead or somehow disconnected. but at the bios level, the machine >reports the disk is ok (i ran some bios diagnostics on it). > >so what i tried: > > boot> > boot hd0a:/bsd > >that just fails in the same way. > > boot> machine diskinfo > DiskBIOS# TypeCylsHeads SecsFlags Checksum > hd0 0x80label 1023255 63 0x2 0xd53d9ad8 > >that looks ok. > > boot> ls > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 . > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 .. > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 home > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 tmp > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 usr > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 var > -rwx-- 0,0 15696910 bsd > -rw--- 0,0 15696910 bsd.rd > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 altroot > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1024 bin > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 19456dev > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 etc > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 mnt > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 root > drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 sbin > -rw-r--r-- 0,0 578 .cshrc > -rw-r--r-- 0,0 468 .profile > stat(hda0/./sys): No such file or directory > -rw-r--r-- 0,0 82320boot > -rw--- 0,0 15579327 bsd.sp > -rw--- 0,0 15714870 bsd.booted > >so at this level i can see the disk. but when i boot it's not found. > >trying fresh installs just end the same way - it fails to locate the >disk. so i can;t use anything like fdisk to dig around. > >any opinions on whether the issue is with the disk, or whether there's >anything else i can try? > >sorry i have no up to date dmesg for this machine ;( > >thanks, >jmc This sounds like the problem that I (and others) have seen when the hard drive is set to RAID in the Bios/firmware. Try setting it to AHCI if your bios lets you.
ssd drive disappears when booting
hi. hoping someone knows what's happening here... i installed -current amd64 on an old dell latitude e6320 laptop. it ran fine for a few hours, but on a subsequent reboot the disk (an ssd) seemed to disappear: ... softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets root device:<- hit use one of: exit em0 iwn0 root device: i.e. it fails to find sd0. i thought it was a hardware issue. i don;t want to open this thing up. but i thought initially the drive was either dead or somehow disconnected. but at the bios level, the machine reports the disk is ok (i ran some bios diagnostics on it). so what i tried: boot> boot hd0a:/bsd that just fails in the same way. boot> machine diskinfo DiskBIOS# TypeCylsHeads SecsFlags Checksum hd0 0x80label 1023255 63 0x2 0xd53d9ad8 that looks ok. boot> ls drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 . drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 .. drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 home drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 tmp drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 usr drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 var -rwx-- 0,0 15696910 bsd -rw--- 0,0 15696910 bsd.rd drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 altroot drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1024 bin drwxr-xr-x 0,0 19456dev drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 etc drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 mnt drwxr-xr-x 0,0 512 root drwxr-xr-x 0,0 1536 sbin -rw-r--r-- 0,0 578 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 0,0 468 .profile stat(hda0/./sys): No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 0,0 82320boot -rw--- 0,0 15579327 bsd.sp -rw--- 0,0 15714870 bsd.booted so at this level i can see the disk. but when i boot it's not found. trying fresh installs just end the same way - it fails to locate the disk. so i can;t use anything like fdisk to dig around. any opinions on whether the issue is with the disk, or whether there's anything else i can try? sorry i have no up to date dmesg for this machine ;( thanks, jmc
