Hi again.
Just a quick update.
After adding some "bogus" partitions 0 to 2 in front of openbsd paritition 3
the BIOS no longer hangs with disklabel data. I can now install, boot and run
OpenBSD from SSD on SATA.
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$ doas fdisk sd0
Disk: sd0 geometry: 31130/255/63 [500118192 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
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0: EE 0 0 2 - 0 0 11 [ 1: 10 ] EFI GPT
1: 05 0 0 12 - 0 0 32 [ 11: 21 ] Extended DOS
2: 83 0 0 23 - 0 0 54 [ 22: 32 ] Linux files*
*3: A6 0 1 2 - 31129 254 63 [ 64: 500103386 ] OpenBSD
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I tried this with the intuition that this might stop the BIOS from "seeing" the
disklabel data. And fortunately it worked. To really understand what is going
on I guess one would need access to the BIOS source code, or?
Should this issue be reported as an "official" bug?
At least other Clevo W840SU laptop users could benefit from this knowledge.
Best regards,
Fox
