On March 19, 2019 7:59:49 PM UTC, [email protected] wrote:
>Dear Community.                                                        
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>I'm trying to run OpenBSD on a Clevo W840SU laptop. After a successful
>install                                                 
>and starting the machine the BIOS hangs. That is, when the booting
>drive is                                                     
>connected via SATA/mSATA. When connected via USB, it works just fine.
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>The identical laptop model is mentioned as a working one 
>in Peter Hansteen's blog (including a dmesg log) [1].                  
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>A detailed documentation of the issue is given in the plain text
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>attached. 
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>So is this a broken BIOS issue?
>What else could I try to get this to work?
>How to debug this issue further?                                       
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>I've been using GNU/Linux before and have had not problem with a
>hanging BIOS                                                        
>whatsoever. In fact it's still working without a problem on this
>machine.                                                               
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>Thank you very much for your attention and help.                       
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>Fox
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>[1] https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2017/07/openbsd-and-modern-laptop.html

Is your BIOS set to RAID for the HDD? If so try setting it to AHCI in the BIOS.

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