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Summary: flash update ASUS bios, Grub wrote error mesage to mbr Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: johnwren Submitted on: Wednesday 05/17/2006 at 02:23 Category: Booting Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: John Wrenshall Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open/Closed: Open Release: 0.95 Reproducibility: None Planned Release: _______________________________________________________ Details: System: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ motherboard ASUS A8N-*\E ACP! bios revision 1010 display: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (512Mb) memory 1Gb 400Mhz Software: Ubuntu (Amd_64) 5.10 Breezy Grub 0.95 I updated the flash bios (operating under windowsXP, using flash update program provided by ASUS, rom file downloaded from ASUS -- see asus report (attached) and rom file (attached). BIOS updated to 1013. [This was done as a suggestion from the ubuntu forums about problems in the dmesg to do with usb support -- see dmesg attached] Update proceeded normally. However subsequent reboots failed with message 'no operating system'. The partition table is OK, I can boot via any linux CD. The mbr shows that grub seems to have detected a disk geometry change (I'm not sure if the bios update did in fact change the geometry). The problem is that the error message appears to have been written over the boot loader portion of the mbr -- see a dd copy of the mbr attached. This may be either/and/or a grub problem and a problem with the asus flash update. I have filed a report with both sites. Thanks John _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wednesday 05/17/2006 at 02:23 Name: ubuntu 5.10 dmesg.txt Size: 15.53KB By: johnwren ubuntu dmesg output <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=9986> _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16609> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub