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Gregory Shearman wrote: |
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> In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: |
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>> Randolph Maaßen wrote: |
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>>> I'm so damn lucky |
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>>> I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the |
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>>> image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the |
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>>> system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real machine |
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>>> and Gentoo works again. |
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>> Allow me to introduce what is likely the luckiest computer user there |
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>> is. Here he is: Randolph Maaßen |
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>> If that was me, I would have lost everything on there. |
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> But you'd lose everything on there with style, Dale. |
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> I don't trust any machine and therefore have multiple backups in |
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> different places. I haven't lost anything.... yet. |
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I have backups of the things I really need. I do that to run off the |
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evil spirits if nothing else. We all know by now that if you don't have |
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backups, you will wish you did. It never fails. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. I updated to grub2. Yeppie!!!! There is a Gentoo wiki that lets |
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you chain load with the old grub to make sure everything works. Since |
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it worked for me, must be fool proof right? ;? |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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