bigdamnnerd | (no subject)

(I wonder why that phrase has lost popularity </oblivious>)

So, a couple weeks ago I accidentally overwrote /boot on my desktop Linux machine. (for non-Linux people, that’s where the kernel lives, and meant the machine was non-bootable). I was attempting to make a bootable Linux flash drive, and forgot several things. 1) Linux uses SCSI emulation for both USB drives and SATA drives and 2) my new desktop has a SATA drive in it. So the first SCSI drive on the system (/dev/sda1) wasn’t the flash drive like I was expecting, and dd had

Oops.

Luckily, everything was still running fine since the kernel was loaded into memory already, and I put off fixing /boot until I had more time.

I came into work this morning to find that X had crashed, so it was as good of a time to reboot as any. It only took about a half hour of poking around to figure out how to fix everything that needed to be fixed.

It’s almost as if they expect people to dd over /boot every so often...