Re: [probably solved] Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated
I had a machine that didn't like OpenBSD either, it froze during POST or Plop, basically when BIOS services were still usable. It was a BIOS-based system though, and I didn't patch it either. Luckily, I installed on an external disk. -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Henrique Lengler Sent: December 23, 2014 12:56 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: [probably solved] Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated 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
[probably solved] Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated
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
Re: [probably solved] Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated
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
Re: [probably solved] Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated
On 2014-12-23 14:55, 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, UPDATE: It also loaded OpenBSD from the harddrive, now I don't need to install it again. This evidence that I did install it right! Regards, -- Henrique Lengler
Re: [probably solved] Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated
Henrique Lengler henriquel...@openmailbox.org writes: It also loaded OpenBSD from the harddrive, now I don't need to install it again. This evidence that I did install it right! So likely it was a buggy BIOS then. Excellent to hear that you got the thing running, best of luck with the new system! - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
