Update Modified BIOS???
This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor
instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a
hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I found both ide
hard drives accessible and ok. I re-ran lilo but this did not correct
the problem. Thinking that something had damaged the mbr on the first
ide hard drive I ran lilo again to use the the mbr on the second ide
hard drive. When I went into BIOS to change the boot sequence I found a
SATA hard drive had been moved to the top of the boot sequence! When
this was corrected I could boot from the first ide drive.
Yesterday - 28 June 08 - I ran apt-get update followed by apt-get
dist-upgrade. Following this everything worked as usual and in the
evening I shut down the system with shutdown - h now. At no time did I
enter BIOS.
Could the upgrade have modified BIOS ????????? If so, should this be right?
There may be other problems as well. After correcting the boot sequence
and booting up my Wacom tablet no longer works. My version of xorg.conf
is unchanged. As yet I have not tracked down the source of this problem.
Tom
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