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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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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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Reason for that is in another reply. It was a symlink in the kernel |
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sources directory too. Once a symlink starts, it's a link from then |
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on. I just got to get the right one. lol |
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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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By first screen, I mean the first screen that the BIOS pops up when |
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booting. You know, shows CPU, memory, drives and tells you to hit DEL |
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to enter the BIOS config. The second screen is the one that pops up |
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right after the BIOS. It is actually the SATA AHCI controller according |
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to what it says. It only shows up when AHCI is enabled I think. Grub |
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comes up after that. |
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I did update the BIOS on here once. I have rebooted it several times |
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and it seems to be working fine. I may update once more but the new one |
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was still a beta when I last checked. I think that part is OK. I |
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think. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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