RocketDolphin

Here at casa RD we suffered a catastrophic hardware failure. The root drive on the server went south in a big way and was unrecoverable. I tried different rescue live-cds, different machines, combinations of the above. I even put the dang thing into the freezer for a few hours to see if that’d help, it didn’t.

The end result is that no machine or OS would boot with the drive (a 7 year old 20 GB IBM) connected.

So…I took the memory from the server and put it, with another 512MB, into the SO’s machine, built a new server with that box, and presto, back again.

The biggest problem actually wasn’t the fact that the drive died it was the fact that I couldn’t find the backups I’d made of /etc and other important directories (databases, etc.). That’s the “ooops” part of the story.

Now, for those that’ve read this far you may be wondering how I managed to confiscate the machine belonging to my SO. The SO said “Use my machine, my employer is giving me a new machine to bring home.” Cool!

Good: I’ve got this blog back up. Bad: I lost all the previous content.