Ubuntu Upgrade from 11.10. to 12.04

[Chris Green]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:29:55PM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >That's even stranger. How could it have modified BIOS? And more
> >importantly, WHAT did it modify?
> 
> How it did it is simple enough, probably via assembler and a BIOS
> call, and what it did was change the boot order of my SATA disks. To
> be precise, it moved the disk with Ubuntu aboard (/dev/sdb) to the
> top of the pile. I normally boot via /dev/sdc which contains my
> work-a-day Kubuntu system and I get to Ubuntu (and Windows 7 on
> /dev/sda) when necessary via grub.
> 
The boot order can surely be altered by lots of things other than the
BIOS can't it?

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Chris Green