Once upon a time, Frank Cox theatre@melvilletheatre.com said:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 10:18:09 +0000 (UTC) Tony Mountifield wrote:
killing the UEFI stuff stops you ever being able to do a re-install on that box. Is that correct?
Apparently so.
Just to clarify: this appears to be a problem with some particular buggy UEFI implementations; this is not a universal problem with the UEFI design or anything. It is unclear (just "some MSI boards") which models/revisions/etc. have this particular problem. There have been other isolated UEFI implementation problems before (some Samsung laptops for example, with a particular UEFI version and Linux kernel driver version plus a samsung-laptop driver enabled).
This isn't meant to diminish the impact; certainly UEFI is proving to be problematic in ways the BIOS wasn't (although the early days of "IBM compatible BIOS" implementations also had weird issues from time to time).