Still crazy after all these years

[Ken Moffat]

Retired I am.

Ken Moffat.
On Feb 16, 2015 9:35 AM, "Bill Campbell" <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:

> I'm still hanging in there although I would like to figure out
> how to pass off my Linux clients to somebody so I can retire.
> Most are running on CentOS 5 with a few ancient SuSE Enterprise
> Linux boxes still going (and a couple of SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a).
>
> Work is a four letter word that gets in the way of playing bridge.
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>
> >Ironically, this email chain hits just as my main lappie goes toes-up (on
> >my work's mbp atm).  Came out of slumber and froze.  On hard rebooting, I
> >see it trying to mount the root filesystem, but all I repeatedly get was
> >some messages about Incrementally Starting RAID devices, and complaining
> >about no group "root" or "disk".  Never to recover.
>
> >After playing around a bit, and fearing that my SSD was in the process of
> >failing (but it booted grub without problem), I booted from a usb stick
> and
> >discovered that my LVM root partition seemed fine.  However, the UUID on
> >the partition is not what is in grub!
>
> I really like specifying root=LABEL=xxx to using UUIDs for this.
>
> ...
> Bill
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