Re: petitboot / partition table issue

On 12/09/2020 20:09, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/09/2020 20:01, Mark Kettenis wrote:
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>> I don't see the FAT partition in your fdisk output, which makes me
>> suspect that you follwed the "(E)dit MBR" path instead.  In that case
>> your on your own and if you don't create a FAT partition the disk will
>> not be recognized by Petitboot.
> 
> Yes, you are correct
> 
> I don't remember exactly what the prompt was, but when the installer
> asked me to choose between whole disk and MBR, I thought whole disk was
> a more drastic option that might impact my plans to put other OSes on
> the disk.
> 
> I'll try the whole process again and see if I can get further

Thanks again, this fixed the issue

Here is what I did:

Talos II, dual 8 core, 128GB
- removed the LSI HBA (mpii not working)
- added USB 3 dock with SSD
- Radeon RX 580 (not tested)

Using the same installer snapshot mentioned in my earlier email, I was
able to to install to the USB 3 docked SSD

At the disk selection question, it defaulted to sd0 which was the
installer USB stick.  I had to change this to sd1, the SSD in the dock.
 The same thing happened on the previous install.

When the partitioning prompt appeared, I just chose the whole disk option

Rebooting from the installer, petitboot shows OpenBSD, I select it and
it boots from the dock

During the first boot, there is a long delay, maybe 5 minutes, at this step:

  reordering libraries: done.


I can now log in to OpenBSD

Can anybody suggest when it will be feasible to try amdgpu or is there
any other graphics card I could try now?

Is there anything I can do to get verbose output from mpii about the LSI
HBA?  If I can provide any more detailed logs then I would be happy to
do so.

Regards,

Daniel