<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div>Hi Alexander,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">>so yesterday I decided to try out Dragonfly BSD. So I booted OpenBSD 6.8-beta on my trusty Lenovo Thinkpad X220 and promptly >downloaded the 5.8.1 release memstick image. I then used dd(1) to copy it to /dev/rsd1c and rebooted. I rejoiced that the image booted but >was dismayed that it asked me to specify the root fs. Choices of da0 da0s4 and da8 were displayed. By subsequent use of "lsdev -v" at the >boot prompt I determined that "da8" probably was the correct choice, with da0s4 being the OpenBSD partition, which I wanted to leave alone</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">>Use of "ufs:da8", "hammer2:da8", "ffs:da8" all gave an error reading sector 0 of the device.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">>I thought that the pen drive might be defective and went to town to buy another one. That didn't help. Neither</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">>did using the current snapshot help.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">>I'm now at loss what to do. I like challenges and simply using the working OpenBSD installation won't do.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">>I would be grateful for any help, or pointers to any dics that I can RTFM. TIA.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">I also have a trusty X220: builtin USB doesn't work with DragonFly. Otherwise it works great with DragonFly.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Netbooting DragonFly works fine.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The DragonFly install media (memstick) contains a netboot/install option.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">You just need to boot the install media on another pc connected to your X220 with an ethernet cable.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Then select netboot/install on other pc and netboot your X220 (choosing PXE in BIOS).</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I didn't yet open a bug on this issue, you might be faster doing it.</span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> -thomas</span></div></body></html>