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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. 

-- 
Bob Cox.  Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
Registered user #445000 with the Linux Counter - http://counter.li.org/


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