Re: Update Modified BIOS???

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On 06/29/08 16:18, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas H. George 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.
I would strongly consider switching to grub in the not-so-distant
future. LILO is currently a candidate for removal from Debian.

No it's not. There was a discussion on debian-devel, but the conclusion
was that lilo has to stay for a while because it has features that grub
does not.

I saw that thread too, but never saw any email from an ftp-master
relenting.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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