Sunday, April 07, 2024

Re: 7.5 NO hard drive?

On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 12:03:21AM -0700, latinfo@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> i have 1 DELL Latitude E4300 that had OBSD 7.3 working correctly, but i
>> decided to do a clean installation of 7.5 deleting everything on it with a
>> live cd linux; then tested 7.5 and it says NO disk.
>>
>> After that i tested Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD all them where installed
>> without a problem; But, OBSD 7.3 7.4 7.5 said NO disk!
>>
>> [ ... ]

>>
>
>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.

Seems to an older issue:
https://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=10228
https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg153583.html

IIRC, Debian, Fedora, Windows installed without problems on that machine:
at least in my case it might be a problem with a BIOS version too old for
an openbsd install - not being sure ..
--
Wolfgang

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