On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 02:03:03PM +0800, Farty Breath wrote: > 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.
Nevertheless it would have been useful to see the dmesg. The basic problem could be a number of things including the possibility that the particular disk controller isn't supported. However, do go into the firmware setup and see if you can find any options for changing the disk controller mode - look for things like 'legacy', 'sata', possibly even 'secure' vs less secure modes. Try changing one option at the time (yes, that could be time consuming), if at all possible collecting dmesg output for each variation (saving to somewhere on the usb stick you're installing from should work fine). - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
