[ltp] Scared about BIOS update

[Bob Alexander]

Ignacio Fern=E1ndez Galv=E1n wrote:
>> That said your boot setup has nothing to do with BIOS. You would=20
>> greatly  simplify your life if you installed GRUB (or LILO) to your=20
>> /dev/hda  master boot and let it handle the situation.
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> Hmmm... And who's in charge of booting from the partition marked as =20
> active, the MBR? Why does it find "No OS" when I mark hda3 as active=20
> but  boots without any problem when I copy the hda3 boot sector to the=20
> windows  boot loader?
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oki doki. maybe I do not understand well.

Might find the following interesting:

Anatomy of the Linux boot process
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-migrate2/?ca=3Ddgr-lnxw09B=
ootProcess


> After choosing "Linux" in the windows menu, I get the Grub menu, where=20
> I  can choose the kernel I want or even go back to the first menu. But=20
> what I  would really like is just getting Grub installed in hda3,=20
> without touching  the MBR, so I could go back to the "factory setting"=20
> by changing the  active partition again.
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that sad day you could just fdisk /mbr

> Also, I have the "problem" of the "Access IBM" key at boot time and =20
> exiting the BIOS setup, which leave the computer in an eternal loop=20
> state,  and I'm afraid it was the "failed" BIOS update who did that...
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Did you use a wrong BIOS image, was the download corrupted or did it=20
abend while upgrading ?

Maybe you should consider sending machine to reflash BIOS ?

Good luck,
Bob