Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-23 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Tom, Booting from a USB dongle works! Thank you! Yours sincerely, Xianwen On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:37 AM, Tom Smyth mailto:tom.sm...@wirelessconnect.eu>> wrote: Hi Xianwen, if you try with the USB Boot device... you can see if you can load it . then I suggest you get a compact low prof

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-21 Thread Tom Smyth
Hi Xianwen, if you try with the USB Boot device... you can see if you can load it . then I suggest you get a compact low profiile USB key so that it doenst snag on your bag when putting the laptop back in the case Tom On 22 February 2018 at 02:11, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear Steve, > > I agree

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-21 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Steve, I agree! Thank you for the advice! Yours sincerely, Xianwen On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 11:27 PM, STeve Andre' mailto:and...@msu.edu>> wrote: On 02/12/18 12:07, Xianwen Chen wrote: Dear OpenBSD users, I am not able to run OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 on a Dell Latitude E6330. The installation w

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread STeve Andre'
On 02/12/18 12:07, Xianwen Chen wrote: Dear OpenBSD users, I am not able to run OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 on a Dell Latitude E6330. The installation was done by taking out the hard drive and hook it through a USB reader to another machine. I boot the hard drive through Legacy Boot menu. The boot proc

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Mestre, Thank you. I agree! Sincerely, Xianwen On 2/12/18, Ricardo Mestre wrote: > Hi Xianwen, > > I guess this is one of "you're-on-your-own" cases, the BIOS being locked by > IT I'm even surprised you're allowed to install a different OS on the > machine. > > For starters I'd speak dire

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Peter, Thank you. There is probably such an option in BIOS. Unfortunately I do not have access to BIOS at the moment, because it is locked by administrators of my IT department. Sincerely, Xianwen On 2/12/18, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On 02/12/18 18:07, Xianwen Chen wrote: >> Dear Open

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Xianwen Chen
Thank you Mike! Sincerely, Xianwen On 2/12/18, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 05:25:57PM +, Xianwen Chen wrote: >> Dear Mike, >> >> >From the output of dmesg, I guess so. The BIOS is locked by IT >> administrators. Is there some way that I can use OpenBSD while the >> controlle

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Ricardo Mestre
Hi Xianwen, I guess this is one of "you're-on-your-own" cases, the BIOS being locked by IT I'm even surprised you're allowed to install a different OS on the machine. For starters I'd speak directly with them and check what are you allowed or not to do with the machine. /mestre On Monday, 12

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Mike Larkin
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 05:25:57PM +, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear Mike, > > >From the output of dmesg, I guess so. The BIOS is locked by IT > administrators. Is there some way that I can use OpenBSD while the > controller is set to RAID mode? > > Sincerely, > Xianwen > not that I know of >

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Xianwen Chen
Dear Mike, >From the output of dmesg, I guess so. The BIOS is locked by IT administrators. Is there some way that I can use OpenBSD while the controller is set to RAID mode? Sincerely, Xianwen On 2/12/18, Mike Larkin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 05:07:15PM +, Xianwen Chen wrote: >> Dear

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On 02/12/18 18:07, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear OpenBSD users, > > I am not able to run OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 on a Dell Latitude E6330. The > installation was done by taking out the hard drive and hook it through > a USB reader to another machine. > > I boot the hard drive through Legacy Boot menu. The

Re: Hard disk controller not recognized

2018-02-12 Thread Mike Larkin
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 05:07:15PM +, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Dear OpenBSD users, > > I am not able to run OpenBSD 6.2 amd64 on a Dell Latitude E6330. The > installation was done by taking out the hard drive and hook it through > a USB reader to another machine. > > I boot the hard drive throug