grub freezing on Gigabyte GA-H170N-WIFI (and probably Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI) solved with BIOS update
This is an FYI post in case anyone googles for it in the future. No need
to reply.
I recently built a new PC for my Linux desktop and was having strange
issues with grub2 not working right. Sometimes the keyboard would freeze
up, and if I tried to edit a boot entry, the cursor and screen output
would become out of sync with what was happening on the keyboard -- like
a backlogged buffer.
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-H170N-WIFI. The BIOS was the original F3
which came with the board, so I upgraded to F4C, which is currently the
most recent BETA BIOS. This seems to have fixed the problems.
Also note that the F3 BIOS seems to crash/reboot if you use the End key
at bootup to enter the BIOS/UEFI update tool. Use the Del key, enter
BIOS, and then upgrade from there instead.
Everything else about this motherboard on Linux has been great.
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