On Sat, Jun 8, 2024, at 4:01 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jun 08 15:33:15, rfabris@mhsmail.ch wrote:
>> The issue was the USB stick did not appear in the disk selection dialog.
>
> That's hard to believe. If the installer booted from it,
> it must have been recognized as one of the sd? disks
> during the bsd.rd boot.
>
> Jan
Not hard to believe at all. USB 3.0/XHCI has long been very quirky across hardware, firmware, and OS stacks. For years, the popular PC Engines apu2 platform would happily boot USB 3 flash drive(s) for me and then decline to find the root filesystem on the same stick further along in the OpenBSD boot process. Using USB 2 was a viable workaround.
I believe that particular case has since been resolved (BIOS or OS or both, I forget which), but it wasn't the only one I've run into.
Brian
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