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[ILUG] libata issue.

[ILUG] libata issue.

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Fri Feb 22 14:51:11 GMT 2008


Timothy Murphy writes:
> On Friday 22 February 2008 11:10:26 am jm at jmason.org wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure how you're still seeing /dev/hda on Gutsy.  Feisty was
> > terrible for this breakage, in that after a reboot I found myself dropped
> > into a maintainance shell with no clue about what had changed... (yeah
> > yeah I should have read the changelogs before 'apt-get upgrade'ing, I
> > know ;)
> 
> You confirm my suspicion that Ubuntu is only for pointy-heads
> who edit the kernel while it is running, with emacs.
> 
> Normal people run Fedora, and pray for guidance.

I have to say, Ubuntu seems to do this kind of thing quite a lot.
Everything's fine, and shiny, and easy to use -- then bam, an "apt-get
upgrade" has screwed your kernel config somehow and you're in that
maintainance shell again. :(

--j.



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