Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-04-29, f.holop wrote: > f.holop - Wed, 29 April 2020 at 14:57:46 >> i'll try to make a similar test with some linux live distro to see >> if i get similar results. > > I have tested MX linux install ISO that also doubles as a Live distro. > > In the end it's apples and oranges because I

Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-29 Thread f.holop
f.holop - Wed, 29 April 2020 at 14:57:46 > i'll try to make a similar test with some linux live distro to see > if i get similar results. I have tested MX linux install ISO that also doubles as a Live distro. In the end it's apples and oranges because I use the openbsd USB key to boot the system

Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-29 Thread f.holop
Stuart Henderson - Wed, 29 April 2020 at 12:24:50 > The boot loader only has access to what bios/uefi makes available, > it looks like it isn't setting up your nvme device if you boot from USB > unless you go through that menu. There isn't much OpenBSD can do about this. i'll try to make a

Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-04-28, f.holop wrote: > hi, > > i am trying to run openbsd on a very new notebook and it kind of works. > > i have taken away some space from win10 and created a partition, and the > installation went well. atm i dont want to create a boot menu, so i > just insert a usb key with openbsd

Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-29 Thread Strahil Nikolov
On April 29, 2020 12:06:02 PM GMT+03:00, "f.holop" wrote: >Chris Bennett - Tue, 28 April 2020 at 23:03:32 >> Some BIOS's require you to select legacy boot and legacy boot before >> UEFI in order to boot off of a USB. Also might need to turn off boot >> security option, too. >> >> A lot of BIOS's

Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-29 Thread f.holop
Chris Bennett - Tue, 28 April 2020 at 23:03:32 > Some BIOS's require you to select legacy boot and legacy boot before > UEFI in order to boot off of a USB. Also might need to turn off boot > security option, too. > > A lot of BIOS's suck nowadays. Who woulda thought that examining the > BIOS

Re: boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-28 Thread Chris Bennett
Some BIOS's require you to select legacy boot and legacy boot before UEFI in order to boot off of a USB. Also might need to turn off boot security option, too. A lot of BIOS's suck nowadays. Who woulda thought that examining the BIOS would become a purchasing decision? A future BIOS update might

boot drive hide and seek on new notebook

2020-04-28 Thread f.holop
hi, i am trying to run openbsd on a very new notebook and it kind of works. i have taken away some space from win10 and created a partition, and the installation went well. atm i dont want to create a boot menu, so i just insert a usb key with openbsd installed on it, and i select the kernel