> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Gabriel Guzman > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 9:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated > > I've been seeing a similar issue on a DELL XPS 13" Developer edition I got > back in June -- ran fine with ubuntu as shipped with Dell, and then I > wiped and installed OpenBSD and now can't even access the BIOS. > > I'm *sure* it's a BIOS issue as the BIOS is probably trying to do > something silly with the hardisk. Haven't gotten around to flashing the > BIOS to a newer version as I'm fairly sure > I'll need to remove the harddisk before the system will even let me > boot (and that involves taking apart most of the laptop). It's sad that > BIOSes are so buggy these days, and a bit crazy that something you do to > the disk would cause the BIOS to freak out. Oh well, whenever the Dell > support people pick up the phone, I'll complain to them for all the good > it will do. > > The Dell had no problem booting the install media from usb, was just > when it came time to try and boot from HD that the BIOS freaked, and now > won't allow me to access the BIOS settings or the "choose which media to > boot from" menu. > > To the OP -- This is definitely not OpenBSD breaking your system, it's > OpenBSD doing one of the things it does best... exposing bugs in *other* > places (: and I feel your pain, it's quite frustrating when hardware > we've paid for can't handle something that should be easy. > > gabe.
I've got a Dell latitude E5440 that exhibits the same problem. But only with certain hard drives. I have some that work just fine and then some that will freeze the BIOS. I would recommend trying a different drive
