Still crazy after all these years
Matthew Carpenter
matt at eisgr.com
Mon Feb 16 10:11:04 PST 2015
lol, I have been doing that very thing ;)
Actually, I've been using it for vulnerability research on embedded
platforms. Very handy little suckers.
On Monday, February 16, 2015 09:53:22 Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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
> >> --
> >> INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software
LLC
> >> URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
> >> Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820
> >> Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792
> >>
> >> Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice.
> >> Nothing
> >> is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity.
> >>
> >> -- Lord Acton
> >>
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