On 8/5/06, WA Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Two weks ago I had a lightning strike. Lightning hit the TV antenna, came
down the pole, blew the cover to a breaker box into the yard. Then it jumped
to the telephone protector and blew out the DSL modem. Then it hit both
computers and took out both built into the motherboard nic cards, video
cards, KVM switch and the keyboard! Then it took out a Ham Radio and an
antenna tuner. It also hit both satelite receivers in the house. It hit my
Ham Repeater. took out the link radio and controller.
So how was your week?
Well, this week isn't starting too well.
Yesterday, I decided to upgrade the home server from Ubuntu breezy to dapper.
Usually those upgrades seem to go well, but I seem to have run into a
bug in the code which generates the initramfs which caused it to leave
out the code needed to understand lvm, so I can't boot.
I'm currently downloading a dapper install disk to (hopefully) use as
rescue disk. I've found some indications that I should be able to
escape out to a shell early in the install process, mount the LVM
volume, chroot, and re-install the kernel package to fix it.
So I'm starting the week with crossed fingers, hoping that I don't
have to rebuild the system from backups.
--
Rick
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