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
