On 1 February 2015 05:41:36 CET, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>J.  Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> [15-02-01 05:40]:
>> On 31 January 2015 18:50:19 CET, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>> >Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> [15-01-31 18:12]:
>> >> After recent upgrade my computer doesn't want to boot.  I did not
>do 
>> >> anything with grub or kernel.
>> >> I get a bios flash and next is message:
>> >> 
>> >> Loading operating system ...
>> >> GRUB loading stage2
>> >> 
>> >> and computer goes back reboot cycle, flash bios and the same
>massage
>> >is 
>> >> displayed.
>> >> What went wrong during update?
>> >> 
>> >> -- 
>> >> Joseph
>> >> 
>> >
>> >Hi Joseph,
>> >
>> >may be only a accidental coincidence...
>> >One thing I can think of is an empty bios coin cell.
>> 
>> If that battery is flat, the bios will complain settings are gone.
>> Why would that cause grub to fail?
>
>Dont know the reason...I only experienced it several times...

That the battery went flat?
Same here.

That a flat battery caused the bootloader to fail?
Never. And I doubt that is even possible.
At worst you would need to reconfigure the harddrive and boot order each time. 
(If the mainboard and Bios is from the previous century.)

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Joost

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