Pain, Horror and Redemption 1

Posted on Jan 15, 2008
Welcome to the first of many PHR incidents to come in my life.



I updated grub and rebooted.
What followed was 6 hours of endless bootloader overwriting, staying awake till 2am, wiping out the windows bootloader twice, installing Elive, Arch, Mandriva on spare partitions, hoping that somehow i could get the bootloader to boot into my system.

It kept complaining about not being able to find /dev/hdd2, the root filesystem.
Then i realized that in the error messages, it was just mounting all sd* drives.

So I change hdd to sdb and voila!

Today I find out that the IDE and SATA code was merged in the kernel, and the bootloader update probably rewrote the paths or something

Lesson Learned: Read errors properly before doing all sorts of crap.



PHR stories are stories about my own incompetence/stupidity. No product mentioned herein is being insulted unless I specifically say so.