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Okay, I just spent about 2 hours trying to get OpenBSD 7.2 (amd64) working on my laptop (Dell Latitude E6540). Things I noticed: - The installer worked fine -
by dark-star 4y ago
Okay, I just spent about 2 hours trying to get OpenBSD 7.2 (amd64) working on my laptop (Dell Latitude E6540). Things I noticed:
- The installer worked fine
- It detected the WWAN and WiFi cards, although it couldn't get the WiFi working due to missing firmware (that was expected)
- The installer complained that the USB image was insecure because it was missing a SHA256 signature for the files. I re-downloaded it from a different mirror but that was bit-for-bit identical to the one I had, so I think this is probably just a bug in the installer (or image)
Installation went quick and I was met with a "Congratulations" message, where I opted to reboot.
After that, the laptop entered a boot loop, with every reboot resulting in it rebooting again right after the BIOS logo, without even as much as a text screen/boot loader showing.
I figured it might be because I installed as GPT (which was what the installer suggested) even though my BIOS is set to legacy boot. So I re-did the installation, this time choosing "whole disk (MBR)" instead of "whole disk (GPT)".
The reboot loop didn't happen again, but it still couldn't boot from the disk, no text output, nothing, just the big BIOS logo and half a second of flashing the HDD LED, then silence.
Trying the BIOS-integrated boot menu (F12) hung the whole laptop unless I removed the harddisk.
The disk itself is fine though (I gave it a quick run-down on my desktop system) and another disk with Linux on it still boots without issue.
So yeah, maybe OpenBSD probably isn't right for me if I expect as much as a basic, working system after installation shrug