On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > When I did my ls on > /boot, the kernels were symlinks to the kernel sources on /usr which is not > mounted yet. <SNIP>
Why in the world would a kernel on /boot _ever_ be a symlink? That's just not right for guys like you and me Dale! > > I reboot and the BIOS shows my drives not as SATA but as IDE. However, I > edit the grub kernel line to point to a good kernel and it boots. I'm > actually typing in it now. > So this is good. Glad you got that far. > My questions you ask? Why is the BIOS not seeing the drives correctly? The > main BIOS screen sees nothing and it used to print them on the screen, > including the DVD burner. They do show up on the second screen where AHCI > detects drives. IF by the 'first screen' you mean what you see when booting up then it may or may not be a problem. I suspect your BIOS settings got scrambled a bit. With my Asus MB there is an option to tell it to show the drives on the first screen or not. If BIOS gets set back to default then I don't see them. I then go in, set the option, and then I do see them. On this Asus machine I have two BIOS'es. When I do updates, if the update doesn't go well, then the machine automatically drops back to BIOS #2 which is (hopefully) unchanged. This is safe, but can at times get a little confusing. Possibly your machine has something similar and you're now using the second BIOS? Good luck!!! Cheers, Mark
