David Wetzel wrote:
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1023 heads: 142 sectors/track: 43 (6106 sectors/cylinder)

Did the bios update blow away the geometries in the BIOS?  If it did,
did you set them back to exactly what they were before (looks like you
did)?  If you set them back correctly, that's pretty darn weird... 
Maybe running installboot to reinstall the boot loader?

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John Merriam
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