Still crazy after all these years

[Tony Alfrey]

Trying to figure out what all of the commotion is over raspberrypi; they 
runs an abbreviated form of Debian (among other abbreviated linux). 
I'll tell you, if you want a job, pick one of these things up, play 
around with it, and then farm yourself out as an expert.

Tony Alfrey



Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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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