Many thanks all for your replies, Apologies for not including dmesg output, it's attached now for install60.fs and install61.fs on the Sony VPCSA. Thanks Stuart for the link.
I have tried: 1. BIOS settings. Couldn't see anything "legacy", "SATA", "security" related. 2. Installing from latest snapshot (using openbsd.hk mirror) - see dmesg. To no avail. Cannot see the internal hard drive during install or on the running (from a USB stick) system. Couple of other observations gleaned while going through this process: 1. wireless hardware is recognised but whennever I try to configure it am told it is disabled by hardware key. There is a hardware switch on the laptop, but it is in the on position. 2. 6.0 recognises the wired ethernet hardware (I can configure and use it), 6.1 doesn't seem to (at least, I cannot configure it). Regards, Simon. PS: Farty Breath from The Young Ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series) On 30 March 2017 at 01:22, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2017-03-29, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2017-03-29, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Unfortunately the section explaining how to do this was removed from the >> install faq with "it's easy to find this info elsewhere". > > Link to the old versio nnow that cvsweb is back up (it was down when > I posted earlier): > > http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/www/faq/faq4.html?rev=1.421&content-type=text/html#getdmesg > > More likely you would have a USB stick than a floppy; in that case replace > /dev/fd0a from the page above with /dev/sdXi (replace X with the number > from the device name that shows up on-screen when you insert the stick). [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of dmesg_SonyVPCSA_6.1] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of dmesg_SonyVPCSA_6.0]
