Remember that rule "If it ain't broke, don't fix (eg. change) it"?
Thereby hangs yet another tale.
I am running 3 MSI X570-A Pro motherboards.
Two were running Linux 20 just fine. Both were running NVIDIA gpus.
The third one was running Linux 18.x in a dual boot situation with Linux 20 where it was not running "just fine" when I tried to install Linux 20.
I upgraded the Bios for this make/model of MB to the very latest. Nvidia gpu systems were running just fine.
On Saturday I started the process of upgrading the 3rd MSI X570-A to Linux 20.
Everything goes fine until I install the AMD GPU drivers.
Then I get repeated file system corruption and crashing boots.
So firmly convinced that Linux 20 doesn't like that system I try installing Linux 18 which has been robust and reliable.
Whereupon I get the exact same file system corruption errors.
Then I remember experiencing similar symptoms with an MSI X470 MB (it looked as if a previously functional HD was dieing/dead). And I had updated to the latest MB bios on it too.
So when I back-flashed the MSI X570-A Pro bios to one dated in January 2020 which is multiple versions older than the current release?
Everything is working "fine". I wasted hours on Saturday fighting a bios error.
Sigh.
The moral of the story is only people who are buying a 4th generation Amd cpu are likely to NEED to update their Motherboard bios. Everyone else should stand pat.
Tom M
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