Obsolete_Your_Idols

Tue, 10 Jul 2007

Here's the public profile I have on linkedin. Isn't it ... bland.

posted at 22:23 PDT (-0700) (comments disabled) permanent link Technorati tagged as: all is vanity, vanity

I made two trips to the co-location facility today.

First trip was terminated when I realized the install media had somehow become corrupt since I performed three successful installs with it.

Second trip was with fresh media and I went around in circles because once I had a good install of Ubuntu onto the Sun v20z I found that grub wanted to try to boot off of the first logical volume in the external T3 array. Even when I told it that the internal SCSI drive was (hd0), it wouldn't boot but now because it wanted to use a mythical IDE drive.

I finally resolved it by lying in /boot/grub/device.map and telling it to consider /dev/sdc to be (hd0). What a pain.

My clue that it was going off the rails was that it would boot, say GRUB and then ... stop. Bad disk geometry, no positive affirmation.

All that and I had time to sit in a meeting and have a vision of the future.