Re: z800 hp workstation OpenBSD 5.7 install attempt, hitting a wall

2015-08-10 Thread Jonathan Gray
It is worth trying a snapshot instead of 5.7. You should be able to mount a usb disk from an installer shell which would let you save the output of dmesg or just do an install to a usb disk. I would guess the IDE SATA Emulation would mean pciide(4). On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:53:14AM -0700,

Re: z800 hp workstation OpenBSD 5.7 install attempt, hitting a wall

2015-08-10 Thread Danny Nguyen
I wanted to reply the the most recent message but it hasn't arrived in my inbox yet but I wanted to provide a prompt update (after seeing the latest reply on lists.openbsd.org). I changed the SATA emulation mode to IDE from RAID+AHCI in the hp bios and that did the trick (using the

z800 hp workstation OpenBSD 5.7 install attempt, hitting a wall

2015-08-09 Thread Danny Nguyen
Hi, I purchased a hewlett packard z800 workstation running windows 7 with the intention of running linux ubuntu as a sever but I've found OpenBSD to sound and contain more robust features (versus linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) when dealing with security. I have Michael W. Lucas's book, Absolute

Re: z800 hp workstation OpenBSD 5.7 install attempt, hitting a wall

2015-08-09 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 08:44:47PM -0700, Danny Nguyen wrote: Hi, I purchased a hewlett packard z800 workstation running windows 7 with the intention of running linux ubuntu as a sever but I've found OpenBSD to sound and contain more robust features (versus linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD) when