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On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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<SNIP> |
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> When I did my ls on |
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> /boot, the kernels were symlinks to the kernel sources on /usr which is not |
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> mounted yet. |
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<SNIP> |
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Why in the world would a kernel on /boot _ever_ be a symlink? That's |
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just not right for guys like you and me Dale! |
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> I reboot and the BIOS shows my drives not as SATA but as IDE. However, I |
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> edit the grub kernel line to point to a good kernel and it boots. I'm |
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> actually typing in it now. |
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So this is good. Glad you got that far. |
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> My questions you ask? Why is the BIOS not seeing the drives correctly? The |
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> main BIOS screen sees nothing and it used to print them on the screen, |
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> including the DVD burner. They do show up on the second screen where AHCI |
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> detects drives. |
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IF by the 'first screen' you mean what you see when booting up then it |
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may or may not be a problem. I suspect your BIOS settings got |
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scrambled a bit. With my Asus MB there is an option to tell it to show |
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the drives on the first screen or not. If BIOS gets set back to |
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default then I don't see them. I then go in, set the option, and then |
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I do see them. |
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On this Asus machine I have two BIOS'es. When I do updates, if the |
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update doesn't go well, then the machine automatically drops back to |
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BIOS #2 which is (hopefully) unchanged. This is safe, but can at times |
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get a little confusing. Possibly your machine has something similar |
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and you're now using the second BIOS? |
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Good luck!!! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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