[bug #16609] flash update ASUS bios, Grub wrote error mesage to mbr

[John Wrenshall]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #16609 (project grub):

Updated from work:
updating the bios via grub-install does not fix the problem.  The update is
confirmed, as grub uses the new menu.lst (switching bewteen a suse 10.1
system on hdb5 and a unbuntu 5.10 on hda3.  I will now proceed to remove one
of the twin seagate 80mbyte drives (a susggestion of asus support) and see
what this does to the problem.

More coming on this I'm sure.

What it also suggests is that the error message seen in the bootrecord (just
look at the boot record with any symple editor, and ignore the binary
unintelligible stuff) is something quite deliberate and clever that grub
does, and does not in fact 'trash' the boot record as such.  

It seems this is a geometry problem -- something to do with the bios.


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