It sounds really dumb, but I think Lakka is corrupting my BIOS.
I have an old netbook (Acer AOA150) and restarting after booting into Lakka it will automaticallty enter the BIOS configuration screen. Everything looks as expected (Time, Date, Boot Order), except the hard drive is listed as “none”. If I exit the BIOS and boot Lakka OR re-enter the BIOS the hard disk is correctly detected. If I reboot after booting into Lakka, it will enter into the BIOS configuration screen again.
At first I thought the coin cell battery had run dry, but I don’t think so anymore as I installed a minimal version of Ubuntu/RetroPie and did not experience this after several reboots without issue. I reinstalled Lakka and the issue came back.
Some more evidence that Lakka is modifying the BIOS is that I put a simple password on the BIOS and after booting into Lakka, THE PASSWORD NO LONGER WORKED. I had to remove the coin cell and let it sit for a while (luckily the password wasn’t saved to non-volatile memory!).
A potential clue is that Lakka says it can’t unmount some mysterious flash memory when no flash drive is installed. Never seen this error before and I have installed several different distros on this netbook.
So my questions are:
Is this enough evidence to report as a bug?
How would I go about preventing the mounting of this flash memory to see if that is the issue, considering Lakka is a read-only filesystem?