From Linux to Windows
In: , , ,
On: 2005 / 06 / 06 Viewed: 47396 times

“Cannot find your root device :-(“. Fourth hard drive to die on my Linux box, suddenly, after a completely normal and clean reboot, without my changing anything in the hardware or software config. This time it is too much. I’m migrating all my small LAN server tasks and file sharing to Windows and I’m definitely getting rid of Linux, except maybe if I end up setting up another spare computer. God I’m seriously pissed.

Share This

Related posts

Metastuff

This entry "From Linux to Windows" was posted on 06/06/2005 at 10:11 pm and is tagged with , , ,
Watch this discussion : Comments RSS 2.0. You can trackback this post from your own site

13 Blablas

    Pages: [2] 1 » Show All

  1. Lluís
    13
    Lluís Spain »
    thought, on 21/Dec/07 at 12:28 am # :

    After seven years of using Linux (full of headaches but lately rewards, due to more user-friendly distros) I suspect this could be caused by a bad RAM. Are you using two DIMMs? Are they made by the same manufacturer? DO they have the same serial number or do they have the brand printed on the chips? I was having issues with this for almost a year until I solved it with two identical DIMMs.
    The old ones where of the same brand, but the small chips inside were made by different manufacturers.

  2. BOK
    12
    BOK Europe »
    said, on 10/Jun/05 at 9:36 am # :

    Gee… I’d love to help - 10 years Linux experience here.
    But LILO and the location of the first bootable partition and stuf can be a pain in the *ss indead.

    Only reason I’m not running Linux but WinXP nowadays is that Linux is not recognising my soundchip… and playing Q3A or ET without sound is not done.

  3. Dave M.
    11
    Dave M. United States »
    said, on 09/Jun/05 at 6:53 pm # :

    Well, I had Windows destroy two HD’s (the ones plugged into the computer at the time) when attempting to install bad RAM. I even know my way around Windows, but I would have never suspected that both HD’s would be wiped by installing bad RAM.

Pages: [2] 1 » Show All

Leave a Reply

Comment Guidelines or Die

  • HTML: You can use these tags: <a href=""> <em> <i> <b> <strong> <blockquote>
  • Posting code: Post raw code (no <> &lt; etc) within appropriate tags : [php][/php], [css][/css], [html][/html], [js][/js], [sql][/sql], [xml][/xml], or generic [code][code]
  • Gravatars: Curious about the little images next to each commenter's name ? Go to Gravatar.
  • Spam: Various spam plugins on patrol. I'll put pins in a Voodoo doll if you spam me.
  • I will mark as Spam test comments, all comments with SEO names (ie "My Cool Online Shop" instead of "Joe") or containing forum-like signatures.

Read more ?

 « Google’s Sitemap Protocol 
 Windows as a Recovery Tool for Linux » 
Close
E-mail It