> 22. mar. 2019 kl. 07:16 skrev Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen > <[email protected]>: >> Dear Peter, can you remember more details how you got OpenBSD to work on that >> Clevo W840-SU by any chance? Did you use SSD or HDD for the booting disk? > > I considered it fairly obvious that I wanted the fastest one (the SSD) for > the system disk. I did not make any special preparations for that one (which > means the MBR would be intact), but it is entirely possible that I went for > the old-style (non-UEFI) option. The MBR removal was on the slightly roomier > HDD which I intended to use for /home. >
I should perhaps add to that, I was a little quick in typing up the previous answer. If I remember correctly, I chose the old-style (not «secure boot») BIOS options, did a fairly regular install at first, but ran into something very much like the symptoms you describe. My conclusion then was that for whatever reason the system was trying to boot from the HDD (which then had an MBR but nothing else required for a boot disk), not the SSD. After quite a bit of mucking about with options I never documented properly, as I remember it what gave me a functional system with the SSD as the system disk and I think something very close to the OpenBSD installer’s default partitioning plus the roomier HDD (later replaced with a same-size SSD but that@s another story) involved removing the MBR on the HDD. Then again, this was several years ago so and I did not make any notes that have survived while I was doing this. As you have seen already, you will need an MBR on the disk you intend to boot from. - 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.
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