On 11/09/10 13:02, Leslie Jensen wrote: > > > On 2010-11-09 18:00, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> ... >>> Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64 >>> installation CD. >> ... >>> Then comes the question of installation media and the choices are ftp >>> http or done. >>> >>> I can do the installation via http so I'm ok. But I am wondering how do >>> I do in order to find the CD-rom drive. My plan is to install OpenBSD on >>> this machine in the future. >> >> booting from the CD is handled by the system BIOS, OpenBSD doesn't need >> to know how to access the CD to boot, as it isn't running at this point. >> Installing from the CD requires that OpenBSD be able to access the disk. >> >> It seems, for unknown reasons, there's something odd about your >> computer, and OpenBSD is not recognizing the CDROM. >> >> Install via network as you propose, then post the dmesg output, >> hopefully we can figure out where your CDROM is hiding and why it won't >> come out and play. As the CD and the disk system share the same >> interface, I wonder if your disk is going to be recognized at this point. >> >> Nick. > > > This is what I've done! Boot from USB stick with hard drive present, > both i386 and amd64. > > Issued command dmesg; sysctl hw.sensors >> "dmesg_file_name.txt" > > I noticed that the dmesg info did not make it to the file so I also did > > dmesg >> "dmesg_file_name.txt" > > After that I booted FreeBSD and did > > dmesg >> "dmesg_file_name.txt" > > The files are attached, if you need more info, let me know. > > Thanks > > /Leslie
Interesting. No disks at all, hard or optical. I think the clue might be here: pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82081HBM RAID" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 wired to native-PCI, channel 1 wired to native-PCI pciide0: using apic 2 int 19 (irq 10) for native-PCI interrupt I'm wondering if this little bit might be the issue: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade48.html#ahci-raid "# ahci(4) no longer attaches to RAID-mode disks: To avoid risk of corrupting metadata on certain Intel RAID devices, ahci(4) no longer attaches to the PCI device IDs used by these controllers when set to RAID mode. If your SATA disk is attached to a ahci(4) contoller in RAID mode, it will "vanish" as part of the upgrade and require resetting the BIOS controller type to AHCI to get it back." Does your BIOS, by any chance, have a RAID mode option? Seems kinda odd for a laptop, but I'm short of other ideas, and that sure sounds like it fits. This is new for 4.8, you might want to try booting a 4.7 bsd.rd kernel and see if that sees your disks. Nick.
