[SLL] All my 64bit Ubuntu's stopped booting...so far my 32bit UbuntuME still goes
Francois Caen
frcaen at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 07:21:34 PST 2007
On Dec 20, 2007 6:16 AM, Howard Gibson <hgibson at eol.ca> 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.
And how do you learn what the problem was and prevent it from occuring again?
This is not Windows. There is no bit-rot. The OS does not slowly
become bad over time and need a re-install. If something breaks, it's
not a random occurence.
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Francois Caen
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