Well, you could have at least send the dmesgs of the machines you are talking about.
You could also read that: https://www.openbsd.org/report.html Farty Breath : > Hi All, > > Trying to install OBD for the first time on my Sony VPCSA laptop using > installfs60.fs dd'ed onto a USB stick. Can boot fine and step through > the installation script with no problems until the part where I have > to select the disk to install onto. Here the laptop's internal hard > drive isn't listed. dmesg doesn't show that is was recognised or > configured as far as I can see. > > I have also tried with multiple different USB sticks, installfs60.fs > downloads from different mirrors, and even on another laptop (Sonly > Vaio VPC115FM) and a desktop (HP, not sure what the model is). In all > cases booting and install script work fine, but the internal hard > drive isn't one of the options available when choosing which disk to > install to. > > One more point: a second, blank, USB stick is recognised by the > install script. I can go all the way through the install process and > end up with a functioning OpenBSD install on that stick. > > Thanks for any help. > > Regards, > Simon.
