[SLL] All my 64bit Ubuntu's stopped booting...so far my 32bit UbuntuME still goes

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Howard Gibson wrote:

>    With my Linux boxes, I have a three hour rule.  If I cannot fix a 
> Linux box in well below three hours, I reformat the root partition and 
> re-install everything.  The Linux install takes three hours.  The beauty 
> of Free Software is that I have the install media, and there are no 
> licensing issues.

I have an "eight year rule" :)

I rarely reformat and reinstall. I sometimes even upgrade distros over 
different distros. The few times I reformat and reinstall for same 
operating system is: to repartition disk because of initial limitations; 
or recovery after rampant or unknown security compromises (of systems I 
didn't design, install or maintain myself).

For my own servers and workstations, the only reason I have "reinstalled" 
is because moving between hardware with different types or sizes of 
disks, or different hardware architectures, or different physical 
locations (so just migrate data and configs on to the new installs).

  Jeremy C. Reed