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