Randall wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] [SOLVED] No operating system found?' on Mon, Oct 11 at 22:43: [...]
To wit: When I was an admin in our college Unix lab and responsible for both hardware and software maintenance, on various occasions I:
1) Swapped the arguments on the "dump" command and ended up trashing the first several blocks of the disk (but who needs a boot block or a super block?).
I once had nearly run out of space on /, but had some space on the drive mounted on /usr/local. So, I decided to move all of /usr over to that disk. After moving it all to the new disk, I needed to reclaim the space that was in /usr before mounting the new disk at the new location, so "rm -rvf /usr/*" it was. A few moments later, I realized that the disk that used to be /usr/local was still mounted at /usr/local. "Crap", I exclaimed, as the mail server + router lost most of both copies of /usr. So, I needed to set that system up again. I went to the local cheap CD retailer place - they had Walnut Creek CD roms, etc - with the intent of buying a CD set with an FTP mirror of a few distros. Then I noticed a SuSE 5.2 box sitting on a shelf (next to a Yggsadril box, which I had heard good things about at the time and was considering testing out). I decided to try out this SuSE thing - it looked pretty complete. In the end, killing that box wasn't a total loss. It introduced me to SuSE... --Danny, who refused to run RedHat