[Gllug] Re: [ignore] partition table screwup

Justin Perreault justinperreault at dl-jp.com
Wed Nov 2 09:31:30 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:15 +0000, Minty wrote:
> On 11/1/05, Minty <mintywalker at 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?

The moment you hit the send button you have accepted that someone *can*
come to your rescue. The result being you relax and the blood is again
able to get to your brain.

Either that or, your computer is bothered by such a simple (to the
computer) question that it sends a pulse of electricity through your
mouse/keyboard with the needed information.

;)

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Justin Perreault

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