Thursday, April 28, 2022

Re: Openbsd 7.1 installation - disk boot record

On 4/28/22 04:46, Pawel Kraszewski wrote:
> Well, I installed 7.0 (*not* 7.1) on my desktop (old Haswell mobo) -
> it rendered computer unstartable (not unbootable). Mobo hung so hard
> it couldn't even enter the BIOS. I think I was lucky I didn't install
> it on my PCIe-card NVMe... It would be shitty to need it hot-plugged
> to a working computer to fix.
>

If it is of any use to anyone, I have a Haswell Gigabyte board that
locks up if I use OpenBSD to set up the drive with GPT. It just shows a
black screen and won't even show the vendor logo, much less let me into
the BIOS or OS.

This happens with both an on-board mSATA and with a standard SATA HDD or
SSD. As soon as I unplug the drive, everything is fine, and I have to
recreate the partition table in another system.

I always figured it was a problem with the MB firmware, so I never filed
a bug.

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