On Sun, Feb 09, 2020 at 07:58:25AM -0500, Michael G Workman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Shout out to the OpenBSD developers for making a great OS!
>
> I was able to install OpenBSD 6.6 on a Dell Latitude e6400 laptop, with a
> USB Install. Sent the dmesg in already.
>
> The installer would not recognize the hard drive, a brand new SSD drive.
> The solution to that, from stack exchange, was to change the SATA settings
> in BIOS from IRRTL to AHCI, that fixed the problem.
>
> However if my laptop is powered off for a while, the SATA setting changes
> back to IRRTL instead of AHCI, very annoying, not sure why the BIOS would
> not make my changes persistent. I think it may be a hardware issue, but
> just wanted to know if anyone else has encountered this before?
>
> Thanks.
>
> *Michael G. Workman*
> (321) 432-9295
> [email protected]
This sounds like a BIOS backup battery being flat.
-Otto
