Re: Update Modified BIOS???
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:03:59 -0400, Thomas H. George (lists@tomgeorge.info) wrote:
> 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.
A bit of a long shot admittedly, but it could be a dying BIOS battery
and it just being coincidence that you had done the upgrade the day
before.
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Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/
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