I wanted to reply the the most recent message but it hasn't arrived in my inbox yet but I wanted to provide a prompt update (after seeing the latest reply on lists.openbsd.org).
I changed the SATA emulation mode to "IDE" from "RAID+AHCI" in the hp bios and that did the trick (using the install57.iso). I'm going to climb back into my cage and try to get the networking piece to work (with the intention of sending a dmesg to the admins) and will reach out when I hit another wall. On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 08:44:47PM -0700, Danny Nguyen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I purchased a hewlett packard z800 workstation running windows 7 with the > > intention of running linux ubuntu as a sever but I've found OpenBSD to > > sound and contain more robust features (versus linux, FreeBSD, and > NetBSD) > > when dealing with security. > > > > I have Michael W. Lucas's book, "Absolute OpenBSD" to help with OpenBSD > > install but I've hit a wall on the install process. I can to tear open > both > > computer boxes and look for product numbers to identify the specific > > physical hardware to pinpoint the exact bottleneck. > > > > Things I have tried multiple times: > > > > *1.*The method being used to install OpenBSD 5.7 are two physical compact > > discs (one is the cd57.iso image and the other is the install57.iso > image). > > Both were used. > > > > *2.* Both cds generate the same messages during the install process (on > the > > z800 workstation) which > > is that the number of hard drives found is zero when there are two hard > > drives (not solid state drives) in 2 of the four bays. One is a seagate > HD > > 500G SATA3 6GSQ, it also says "Firmware: HP73" on the drive. The other > is a > > Hitachi with a capacity of 2TB with the labels "LBA: 3,907,029,168 > > sectors", "RPM: 7200RPM", and SATA 6.0 Gb/s. > > If the disks are plugged into SATA ports you may need to change > the mode in the bios from RAID to AHCI. If they're plugged into SAS > ports it's possible you have the unsupported Intel SAS controller in > which case move them to SATA ports. > -- danny nguyen linkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/danny-n/7/b63/379>
