On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:03:59 -0400, Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
