Dear Community.
I'm trying to run OpenBSD on a
> Is your BIOS set to RAID for the HDD? If so try setting it to AHCI in the
> BIOS.
Nope, it is set to AHCI as the documentation attached to my original post
describes.
Dear Peter,
thank you for your reply.
> Odd. I vaguely remember having to set the BIOS to look at the SSD (which
> OpenBSD sees as sd1) but
> IIRC I only booted the machine from a USB drive once, for the initial install.
>
> The only obvious points I see are that you’re pointing to the wrong dm
Dear Peter and all,
> I believe both should be doable using openbsd's fdisk (available I think from
> the bsd.rd
> installer image), try escaping to the shell from the installer, possibly
> fdisk -e and
> keep the man page handy. I *think* what I did back then was set the all parts
> to size
>
Dear Peter and all.
Unfortunately I celebrated to early it seems. :-/
In my last post I described a hack in which I let the OpenBSD partition
start at "sector 0" in order to avoid BIOS hangup.
When I now tried this way of setup with a SSD disk instead of HDD,
after a succesful install, OpenBSD b
Hello again.
Thank you Peter for your feedback and describing the steps that
seem to have solved your problems so long time ago.
To be hontest, at this point in time I feel a bit reluctant to test
with two disks attached mSATA and SATA, I would rather focus
just on one disk attached via SATA.
F
Hi again.
Just a quick update.
After adding some "bogus" partitions 0 to 2 in front of openbsd paritition 3
the BIOS no longer hangs with disklabel data. I can now install, boot and run
OpenBSD from SSD on SATA.
$ doas fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 Sectors]
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