On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:17:51AM +0000, fink...@dismail.de wrote: > In your blog post [1] you describe installing OpenBSD on your then (2017) new > silver colored laptop, a (Multicom) Clevo U831 with dmesg [2]. > > In the post you also mention your previous (2014) black colored laptop, a > Clevo W840SU with dmesg [3]. > This is the model I'm having trouble with.
Ah, I got that backwards, sorry. I claim a slight caffeine deficiency (soon to be corrected) > Sepcifically you write: > > "The main hurdle back when I was installing the 2014-vintage 14" model was > getting the system to consider the SSD which showed up as sd1 the automatic > choice for booting (I solved that by removing the MBR, setting the size of > the MBR on the hard drive that showed up as sd0 to 0 and enlarging the > OpenBSD part to fill the entire drive)." > > It would be great to learn more details on these steps, that is > > - how do I remove an MBR > - how do I set the size of an MBR to 0 > > I believe these MBR tweaks might solve my hanging BIOS issue. I believe both should be doable using openbsd's fdisk (available I think from the bsd.rd installer image), try escaping to the shell from the installer, possibly fdisk -e and keep the man page handy. I *think* what I did back then was set the all parts to size zero, except the OpenBSD part which I set to the largest the program would let me. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
