So, something happened to my linux box on christmas day. The short story is, the mbr somehow got screwed up and i had to reinstall grub to the mbr.
The long story is that I was tired and didn’t feel like looking into it right then. I ran spinrite overnight (really aught to buy a legitimate copy of that) and went to sleep. The next morning spinrite came up fine for all my hdd’s, system still wouldn’t boot. So, i booted up my knoppix disc and did a file system check. My / partition had a few errors which it fixed. Reboot. Still won’t boot. The system would come up to the point where i would usually see the 3 second timeout for grub and just do nothing. This is where i decided to reinstall grub and see if that fixed it. I booted into knoppix again ran grub and issued these commands.
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit
hd0 is my first hdd. ,0 specifies the partition (i have my /boot on sda1 and my / on sda2). This fixed it and now i’m back in business.
Posted by: Jesse Cole in Other
It’s Christmas!!! Wheee!!!!
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Ok, i got nothin’. I did put a Christmas Tree at the top….that looks nice and cheery. I was going to put a frame of holly around this post but i haven’t the slightest idea how to do it. So…i give up.
Merry Christmas.
I was perusing my google web history today when i noticed my top sites list.
I don’t think anything could prove more that i’m a geek than my top clicked sites being things like wikipedia, thottbot (a world of warcraft database site), and tldp.org (the linux documentaion project). Leave a comment if you think you’ve got one better (or are even reading this).
I am still alive, site is back up, and i will probably be adding at least one more of these before the end.
This is a guide for setting up key-based authentication on the mac.
Key-based authentication is an alternative way of authenticating over ssh. Instead of a user name and password, you use a public/private key pair and authenticate this way. A user can optionally be specified as well.
To begin you’ll need to open Terminal.app in your Applications/Utilities folder.
Issue the following command into terminal:
mkdir ~/.ssh
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I am here
I think something happened to the database, dont’ worry, its fixed.
