> OK, now for everyone, it is not the BIOS for whoever's sake. And that > most obviously for the fact that it did boot several times without any > issues. It is not the BIOS! As I said in a different thread, the fact it boots for the first few times but fails after an update *does not prove* that the bios is not at fault. All it proves is after the initial install, for whatever reason (luck?) your /boot files can be read by your bios. After an update, when new kernels are installed and /boot/grub/grub.conf is rewritten, it is perfectly possible, if your bios does suffer from this issue and you don't have a dedicated /boot partition, that these new files are outside the region your bios can read. Thus boot failure. Chris