On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:29:21AM +0200, aliyu...@tutanota.com wrote: > > I'm currently trying to install OpenBSD on my laptop, and I'm coming > across a problem. The installation only detects my installation drive > and my other USB flash drive that I use for data storage, but not my > NVMe SSD I want to do an installation on. > > This same problem also occurs in NetBSD, but not FreeBSD. The UEFI > setup acknowledges my drive as a Non-RAID disk, and Linux also shows > it as nvme0n1, so there isn't any problems with the drive itself.
As Brian mentioned, it would generally be useful to have dmesg output from a system where the drive works as well as from the OpenBSD config where the drive is not recognized. That said, I would recommend looking into the BIOS options to see whether there is a setting for the storage controller mode. In an ASUS laptop I bought a little while back, the options were somewhat non-intuitive: "The option turned out to live in the BIOS' Advanced menu, labeled VMD setup menu, where you set the Enable VMD controller option to Disabled." which made the drive visible to OpenBSD. (the fuller story is at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html or with nicer formatting and trackers https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-impending-doom-of-your-operating.html) In your case, the relevant option (if it exists) may be labeled something completely different. But it's likely worth checking for. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://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.
