On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Henrique Lengler wrote: > I figured that my BIOS have a old firmware from 2013. So I decided to update > it. > At least this my motherboard did good, I easily updated the firmware by > plugging > a USB with the new firmware. > Then It rebooted and yes, it worked as it should. Booted normally with the HDD > sata > connected. I cannot get satisfied yet, I will install a OS and see if it will > still > working. > I'm in doubt about try openBSD again, I'm afraid everything could happen > again. > > Also is there a explanation to this shitty behavior? My motherboard acted like > having a > short circuit, making everything stop working because a bad formatted HDD, > this is a > really unexpected behavior, which made me think the problem was openBSD. > > By now, thanks for helping. > I expect don't need to post anything more here. > > Regards, > -- > Henrique Lengler > >
I would guess that you hit a bug (or multiple bugs) in the BIOS. Probably something related to UFEI. I generally try to update the BIOS on my machines when I'm starting over from scratch with them. When I recently changed my home server to OpenBSD I upgraded the motherboard BIOS before starting the process even though I was not experiencing any problems with the previous BIOS with Linux installed on the machine. I don't have any UFEI machines except at work (thank goodness). It doesn't surprise me that a UFEI BIOS would be buggy and produce behavior like that. -- John Merriam
