[TriLUG] How was your week?

[Shawn Hood]

Mine was good, thanks for asking.  How on earth were you able to tell
the sequence of events, though?  That's pretty incredible.

On 8/7/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/5/06, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> 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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