Re: 6.7-BETA on Thinkpad P1 with two drives : (FIXED)

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 02:25:49PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> You did not tell if you were using EFI or MBR boot. You couldn try the
> other one. I never got my X1 6th gen booting with EFI boot.

Thank you Otto, and sorry everyone else. I thought I had tried all of
the BIOS settings. You're right, when set to "Legacy Only", it works.



> > 6.7-BETA (today's snapshot).
> >
> > Lenovo ThinkPad P1 2nd gen with two NVMe inside.
> >
> > Windows on /dev/sd1
> > Installed OpenBSD on /dev/sd0 (a 1TB Samsung 970 pro)
> > /dev/sd0 has had FreeBSD and Arch Linux on it successfully.
> >
> > Installed via USB just fine. Fresh [W]hole disk install.
> > Just default install, no encryption or RAID.
> >
> > BIOS has sd0 as the preferred startup device. But after reboot, Windows comes up. Hmm…
> >
> > I reboot with manual boot override to select sd0/OpenBSD. Nope. Won't. Just instantly goes back to menu.
> >
> > So I installed same 6.7-BETA on an external SSD via USB-eSATA.
> > Same thing. Installed fine. But laptop won't let it boot from that drive.
> >
> > In BIOS: "secure boot" and "memory protection" all off. And FWIW, settings haven't changed since FreeBSD was running successfully on this laptop yesterday.
> >
> > Any suggestions on what else I could try to make it boot?