On 2020-01-07 15:16, Nick Holland wrote:
hardware: DELL Latitude e5440
Pretty sure I've tested one of those, they work. As I recall, the
E5440 is a few years old, and if I recall properly, the battery
wasn't very long-lived in it. And the Dells of that vintage had a
really wacked default -- someone decided it would be best to default
to "RAID" for disk mode. Yes, on a one drive laptop. For safety
reasons, OpenBSD (and many other non-windows OSs) disable disk
access if the disk controller is in RAID mode rather than ACHI or
"legacy" mode.
Even on AHCI, same happens.
So ... is it possible the CMOS battery is bad on your machine? This
would explain a "Power up, set up machine, install, reboot -- ok".
"power off, power back on later, won't successfully boot" (the
kernel would load, but be unable to access the disks and then
panic). I'm not convinced this is the problem, but might be.
No it does not reboot successfully, not even once.
On the E5540 it goes like this:
-power-up.
-setup & install.
-after done install prompts to [reboot].
-it reboots and "bricks"(i never get to see OpenBSD booting).
-OpenBSD boots only through USB port.
I have screwed and unscrewed about 30 times to try to get it to boot
from the internal port but nothing worked. I have settled with another
laptop instead until I familiarize with BSD and see where that takes me.
