Hi Todd try without the USB Docking device / LAN Dongle device cable attached ... (I see something like that in the dmesg
use the bios to turn off things like the camera one by one and you will find the incompatible piece of hardware (if it exists) On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 05:07, Todd Brewster <toddbrewste...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > the only other thing I can think of is to clear the partition table > > The laptop came with a pre-installed Win10, which I have overwritten with > Fedora. > > Ok just to confirm you are writing the install67.fs or install68.img > to the USB drive... the usb drive is not encrypted.. > > Correct, I wrote Install67.fs / install68.img to the USB Flash drive and then > booted from that flash. > > when you boot your laptop you get the usual OpenBSD boot prompt and you just > hit enter ? > > Well, actually I just wait for the timeout. > > > looking at the dmesg it is saying softraid0 ... (which im assuming > would only be relevant if you were loading an encrypted drive or a > raid that is strange) > I had not noticed that in a dmesg of a standard installer (I could be wrong) > > The drive is currently not encrypted. I compared the dmesg with the other > outputs > and they all have the > softraid0 at root > scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets > lines. > > Thanks and all the best, > > Todd -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
