So we had a blackout.

And then my primary PC hung on grub.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 2397.594
cache size : 4096 KB


When I installed it a few years ago, there was a problem with the SATA/ATA interface. During the Kubuntu install, the CD access failed the moment the drivers loaded to access the disk.

I popped a 4GB SCSI disk in, and installed to that. Then installed to the SATA. Which refused to boot. But I could tell Grub on the SCSI disk to boot the SATA disk.

Ugly.

Some interesting disk failures later. Always confusing of what disk was what in the /dev/sd* chain.

Total of about 500GB on 2 SATA disks used.

Off to Walmart. Well, not really, off to 3 different places before I settled on what I got.

1TB Seagate Barracuda.

$89.

http://www.google.co...st310005n1a1as-rk

http://www.seagate.c...S&reqPage=Support

My system is a dual core desktop, but it is a desktop. So why not try to make it easy this time. Rather than screw around with a server verson of Linux, and trip up on the fun stuff, how about I try fun 1st.

So I installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Since it was on a USB stick I bypasses the previous silly CD issue.

http://www.ubuntu.co.../download-netbook

And then copied all the other disks to this one. I removed the SCSI card, the old SCSI and SATA disks, and now am consolidated to a single disk.

Boot time on this is incredible. When I has my previous setup, it took about a minute before grub notice to login prompt. This system does the same startup in 9 seconds.

Very happy that my system crashed.

Installed from the USB to the SATA disk.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda6              92G  3.9G   84G   5% /

udev                  994M  296K  994M   1% /dev

none                  994M  1.5M  993M   1% /dev/shm

none                  994M   84K  994M   1% /var/run

none                  994M     0  994M   0% /var/lock

none                  994M     0  994M   0% /lib/init/rw

/dev/sda1             183M   32M  142M  19% /boot

/dev/sda7             818G  433G  345G  56% /data