[ltp] Scared about BIOS update

[Bob Alexander]

Ignacio Fernández Galván wrote:
> As I said, the system seems to be working basically fine, but I'm 
> worried  I could have screwed up the boot process or something. I'd like 
> to have a  cleaner, more elegant behaviour at boot time than the one I 
> described  before. And I'd like to be able to eventually upgrade the 
> BIOS... Any  ideas about what has happened? And how to "fix" it?
> 
> Thanks in advance

Hello Ignacio.

Upgrading your BIOS when needed is an harmless procedure that if 
observed with a little attention (dl the correct image and follow ALL 
instructions) is very simple.

That said your boot setup has nothing to do with BIOS. You would greatly 
simplify your life if you installed GRUB (or LILO) to your /dev/hda 
master boot and let it handle the situation.

In case of GRUB these lines will flawlessly boot your XP if you have one 
(in my case on /dev/hda1) and Linux (in my case two different kernels on 
/dev/hda7). Note that (hd0,0) in GRUB parlance means first disk, first 
partition or /dev/hda1) since it's notation is zero based.

HTH,
Bob

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11.4
root            (hd0,6)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.4 root=/dev/hda7 ro
savedefault
boot

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.11-rc4.rja
root            (hd0,6)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-rc4.rja root=/dev/hda7 ro
savedefault
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

title           Windows XP
root            (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader     +1