Uh-oh
borked grub??? 
all about FAVRE, come on...you know you want to click it
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The Kraken, which is found primarily in Scandinavian myth, was a huge sea creature. It was said to lie at the bottom of the sea for a long time and then it would rest at the surface....Like the Midgard serpent in the Norse myths, the Kraken was supposed to rise to the surface at the end of the world.
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Here's the story - a sordid tale of stupidity it is!
I haven't used Mandriva for ages; so, I decided to remove the patition. I started up qtparted. I then proceeded to attempt to delete the partitions.
OUCH! Big mistake. I flubbed that. "Ok," I thought, "Why don't I reboot and try this again?"
Well... GRUB was borked; error 15. I played around with a bloody ineffectual Knoppix for a while, trying to get it all working. No sucess.
Then I play around with installing Mandriva. LILO, of course, didn't recognize Kubuntu.
OUCH! (again)
Now, I had messed up putting in the password for the Mandriva user account. I couldn't properly log in, and I can't use VIM.
Eventually, I just installed another Kubuntu. That is, after playing around with my regular Ubuntu cds, only to discover I had actually burnt two liveCDs, not a LiveCD and an install disk.
Installation takes a while. I go to sleep.
It works all right - but only for the newly installed Kubuntu, not the old one. The old one does a funky Mandriva boot.
So, essentially, now I am migrating over my previous installation. Fun!
I haven't used Mandriva for ages; so, I decided to remove the patition. I started up qtparted. I then proceeded to attempt to delete the partitions.
OUCH! Big mistake. I flubbed that. "Ok," I thought, "Why don't I reboot and try this again?"
Well... GRUB was borked; error 15. I played around with a bloody ineffectual Knoppix for a while, trying to get it all working. No sucess.
Then I play around with installing Mandriva. LILO, of course, didn't recognize Kubuntu.
OUCH! (again)
Now, I had messed up putting in the password for the Mandriva user account. I couldn't properly log in, and I can't use VIM.
Eventually, I just installed another Kubuntu. That is, after playing around with my regular Ubuntu cds, only to discover I had actually burnt two liveCDs, not a LiveCD and an install disk.
Installation takes a while. I go to sleep.
It works all right - but only for the newly installed Kubuntu, not the old one. The old one does a funky Mandriva boot.
So, essentially, now I am migrating over my previous installation. Fun!
If you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
It's a lovely day in the woods today, but safer to stay at home
BECAUSE EVIL FREEN IS KILLING ALL THE TEDDY BEARS AT THEIR PICNIC
Are you really a "Undefined"?Here's the story - a sordid tale of stupidity it is!
I haven't used Mandriva for ages; so, I decided to remove the patition. I started up qtparted. I then proceeded to attempt to delete the partitions.
OUCH! Big mistake. I flubbed that. "Ok," I thought, "Why don't I reboot and try this again?"
Well... GRUB was borked; error 15. I played around with a bloody ineffectual Knoppix for a while, trying to get it all working. No sucess.
Then I play around with installing Mandriva. LILO, of course, didn't recognize Kubuntu.
OUCH! (again)
Now, I had messed up putting in the password for the Mandriva user account. I couldn't properly log in, and I can't use VIM.
Eventually, I just installed another Kubuntu. That is, after playing around with my regular Ubuntu cds, only to discover I had actually burnt two liveCDs, not a LiveCD and an install disk.
Installation takes a while. I go to sleep.
It works all right - but only for the newly installed Kubuntu, not the old one. The old one does a funky Mandriva boot.
So, essentially, now I am migrating over my previous installation. Fun!
I haven't heard anything like that before:
Undefined said Undefined haven't used Mandriva for ages; so you decided to remove the patition.
Will you finish up qtparted. Interesting gossip:
Undefined said Undefined proceeded to attempt to delete the partitions.
Did you hurt yourself?Compare that to small mistake. Interesting gossip:
Undefined said Undefined flubbed that.
Once more? Whatever gave you that idea?Well what?When was this exactly?Thanks for the information:
Undefined said Undefined played around with a bloody ineffectual Knoppix for a while trying to get it all working.
I understand. In the context of played around with a bloody ineffectual Knoppix for a while trying to get it all working, I don't understand "sucess. "
A deeper algorithm is needed to respond to that correctly.
What time is it there?
Did you hurt yourself?What happened to it?
I haven't heard anything like that before:
Undefined said Undefined couldn't properly log in.
That is interesting:
Undefined said Undefined can't use VIM.
Only just? That is interesting:
Undefined said Undefined installed another Kubuntu.
I think after playing around with his or her regular Ubuntu cds only to discover he or she had actually burnt two liveCDs not a LiveCD and an install disk is a lot of things.
Where did Installation take a while?How do you like sleep at sleep ?What does "it" refer to? I think I know that one. Um, Can you please rephrase that with fewer ideas, or different thoughts?
I am having fun doo.
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Well, you know what they say. /sbin happens. 
Anyways. I've been to unbootableness and beyond recently, what with recompiling a kernel but with a stupid framebuffer option. But I've gotten very good at recovery. Since cleaning the HD, I've kept a dedicated 500MB Mandriva "recovery" partition at the end of my drive. I had to recompile a kernel in a chroot environment (15 mins), but I recovered it. I'm quite happy now, it seems however much I bork my system, I can always recover it. Arch is also quite transparent, making this kind of stuff easier.
Package management has not had a single problem on Arch either yet.
Why I love Arch: Simplicity, Pacman, ABS, speed.
Anyways. I've been to unbootableness and beyond recently, what with recompiling a kernel but with a stupid framebuffer option. But I've gotten very good at recovery. Since cleaning the HD, I've kept a dedicated 500MB Mandriva "recovery" partition at the end of my drive. I had to recompile a kernel in a chroot environment (15 mins), but I recovered it. I'm quite happy now, it seems however much I bork my system, I can always recover it. Arch is also quite transparent, making this kind of stuff easier.
Package management has not had a single problem on Arch either yet.
Why I love Arch: Simplicity, Pacman, ABS, speed.
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