From: "Timothy Murphy" gayleard@eircom.net
Now, my question is: Was the fact that this happened after running F10 a pure coincidence?
I'm intending to look at the CMOS battery, and perhaps try re-installing the BIOS. Any other suggestions gratefully received.
There is no OS known that touching a BIOS. A OS does READ the BIOS. So yes, maybe you need to replace CMOS backup battery.
Also, on a old mainboard i have just 1 HDD set in bios, rest of the 3 HDD's are not set. Still any kind of Linux does see all the drives. So maybe Linux does not read BIOS at all.
Good luck.