Pete's Log: ggghhhh!
Entry #931, (Coding, Hacking, & CS stuff)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Sometimes God gives you very clear signs that it's time to quit working for the night. Like tonight when I rebooted malloc and was greeted by the friendly "LI" prompt that means the lilo boot sector's become corrupted. Haven't seen that in a while, and never on non-floppy media. ugh. So I made boot floppies and got lilo reinstalled and thus got malloc to boot properly again. So I went to start xwindows, and that failed. Apparently debian overwrote my XF86Config-4 file, but luckily I found an emacs turd from the last time I updated that file and was able to get X working. But I lost quite a bit of time to this whole ordeal, so I gave up and went home.
But I did get rather a scare whenever malloc wouldn't boot, so I think I'm gonna have to figure out what all on malloc's hd needs backing up to afs. There's probably a good amount...