Sunday, April 07, 2024

Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 05:17:25PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 12:03:21AM -0700, latinfo@vcn.bc.ca wrote:

>>So OpenBSD has been correctly installed, thanks so much to maintain it nice!
>>
>>The problem was with the BIOS, it needs IHCH or something like that to be
>>recognized!
>>But it is working now as a xfce Desktop!
>
>Seems to be (not only) a DELL thing: Some time ago I tried an Openbsd
>installer on an Alienware computer, ~10 years old, which was sold by
>DELL: In UEFI, IIRC, I had to change sata mode from "raid" to "ahci"
>to let openbsd detect hard disks on that computer.

Correction: IIRC, at least the USB-thumb with the installer on it was
detected with RAID mode enabled - but that was about it ... ;)
So: no hard disk, no SSD etc. that were detected ...

--
Wolfgang

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