Also, what in particular, did you find complicated about the Bios?
The menu system is a bit difficult for me to figure out. I could for example not find a screen where it tells me which hard disks it detected. In the older versions that was on the first screen.
Then there are lot of options that I do not understand. I did build one or two computers in the past and at one stage regularly worked the bios of a computer but for years I did not need to do that. I work on operating system level and seldom have to fiddle with a bios.
I could run Ubuntu 13.10 from a live CD. I then built a Debian Jessie DVD using jigdo-lite. After a chroot and grub-update in rescue mode I could still not boot the computer successfully. So in the end I just did a reinstall. Fortunately I had a separate partition for my OS so I don' t have to restore any data in /home.
My old installation had kernel 3.2. The new kernel 3.13 did not complain about the hardware so I suspect that was the problem.
Regards Johann
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