As the title suggests Open suse secure boot is enabled and even though I am admin I cannot change any of the settings in my bios. Well that isn’t actually true I can change them but none of the changes actually stick. They are always reverted upon leaving the BIOS. The HDD it is looking for no longer exists. I am unable to boot to USB so booting to a LEAP live cd is impossible as is booting to anything else but the old HDD which doesn’t exist. I am really having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that as far as I can see that my only option is to buy a new motherboard. I can’t believe that some linux OS has effectively locked me out of my computer. Please tell me that there is a way around this. And if not why on earth would a HDD dying not be taken into account without a strategy for such a thing. Oh and btw I can’t boot to an external CD/DVD drive either so booting to the install disk that was used isn’t possible either. It does ask for the install disk but fails to recognize it in anyway. I wasn’t even aware that an OS was allowed to alter a persons BIOS and stop them from making changes to it. I also don’t remember any warnings regarding the fact that if your secureboot hdd should die that your system will be unrecoverable unless you make this recovery disk. WHich means nope I didn’t make one of those if I was supposed to either.
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Unlikely it’s anything to do with the operating system, what is your system hardware? Is the CMOS battery ok (If it exists)?
The only thing any operating system does is store the bootloader information in the NVRAM. I would suggest checking you have the latest BIOS and look at doing a factory reset on the BIOS.
Not to sound mean or anything, but what you are describing has nothing todo with any Linux distro but more related to the hardware you use…
Did you try to press F2/del when powering up your computer to get into the BIOS?
Because i think you are mistaking the term BIOS…
This sounds very much like well known issue with Intel SPI driver. See this gargantuan thread Bug #1734147 “corrupted BIOS due to Intel SPI bug in kernel” : Bugs : linux package : Ubuntu