On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Fred James wrote: > Kirk Goins wrote: >> Just before leaving for Seattle the other day my Ubunto desktop system said >> there were updates. So I told it to download and install and promptly >> forgot I had done so until I got home tonight. It was asking to reboot to >> finish the updates. Well it is dead now with a >> >> [0,665225] Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on >> unknown-block(0,0) >> >> Is this fixable or will I need to scrap and reload? >> >> Several months ago a grub update trashed things, but the clinic was a few >> days away and I was able to get it fixed there. >> > Someone else has responded with suggestion(s) to help ... my (OT) 2 > cents is to marvel at the number of people who (whether running MS, > Linux, OSX, UNIX, or what have you) will apply patches/updates/upgrades, > untested, to a critical machine/OS/application. We all (including me) > do it, but it still amazes me. > While I would totally agree with you about the process for production machines, I'm not sure its practical to extend that philosophy to home systems. For home systems, I prefer simple/straightforward backups.
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