On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:15 , Minty <mintywalker@gmail.com> sent:

>On 11/1/05, Minty mintywalker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i've done something rather dumb
>
>... which was compounded by panicing and emailing gllug for help.
>
>I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst changing
>
>  kernel   /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda9 ro hdc=ide-scsi
>
>to
>
>  kernel    /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda8 ro hdc=ide-scsi
>
>and all is much better.  Thanks, apologies for wasting your time, and
>why is it that hitting the send button is so often what it takes to
>make you see sense?

You have discovered what is commonly called "Confessional Debugging".  When faced with a problem you cannot seem to solve (or are in panic mode about), sitting down and explaining it to someone while trying to get help will almost always show you the correct answer without any help.  Your email to the list was one way of doing this and it keyed you into the solution.  If you want to see a really weird variation of this, grab your mother[1] and "confess" to her what is wrong and you will be amazed it works.  For a step further along the weird scale, grab your dog. ;-)

1) Note that mother in this case is a generic term representing someone who doesn't even know how to turn a computer on.

Andy


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