On Sun, Dec 07, 2025 at 07:40:16PM +0100, Bartek Dygas wrote:
> I tried installing OpenBSD 7.8 through a USB flash drive.
> After going through some of the installation steps I get this:
>
> Available disks are: sd0.
> Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) [sd0] ?
> sd0: USB, SanDisk 3.2Gen1, 1.00 serial.078155918107a72d2415 (57.3G)
>
> My HDD drive is not showing, but I installed Guix on it and it works.
This is why:
> ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 8 Series AHCI" rev 0x05: msi, unable
> to reset controller
But looking at your dmesg, you're going to have other problems with this
machine too:
> em0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0 "Intel I217-LM" rev 0x05: msiem0: The EEPROM
> Checksum Is Not Valid
> em0: Unable to initialize the hardware
So your wired ethernet won't work.
> ehci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 0 "Intel 8 Series USB" rev 0x05: apic 0 int 16
> ehci0: reset timeout
> ehci0: init failed, error=13
> ehci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 8 Series USB" rev 0x05: apic 0 int 23
> ehci1: reset timeout
> ehci1: init failed, error=13
Some USB ports will likely not work or only work with USB 3 devices, (as your
xhci device seems to be working).
> 0:2:0: mem address conflict 0xfdc00000/0x400000
> 0:3:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9c4000/0x4000
> 0:4:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9c8000/0x8000
> 0:20:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9d0000/0x10000
> 0:22:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9ba000/0x10
> 0:25:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9e0000/0x20000
> 0:25:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9bf000/0x1000
> 0:26:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9bd000/0x400
> 0:27:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9c0000/0x4000
> 0:28:0: bridge mem address conflict 0xfdb00000/0x100000
> 0:28:1: bridge mem address conflict 0xfda00000/0x100000
> 0:29:0: mem address conflict 0xfd9bc000/0x400
> 0:31:2: mem address conflict 0xfd9be000/0x800
> 0:31:3: mem address conflict 0xfd9bb000/0x100
> 2:0:0: mem address conflict 0xfdb00000/0x1000
> 3:0:0: mem address conflict 0xfda00000/0x2000
This looks like the firmware not correctly setting up memory regions.
Does any other OS apart from guix actually work on this setup???
