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. > 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. Sounds like your BIOS battery died, and you might have gotten some broken packages in your last upgrade (it's generally not a good idea to upgrade packages unless you know you need a new feature, bugfix or security patch). -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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