Re: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!)
> * * *
> > How do I make custom boot menus, kernel, init choices and such using the
> > Grub?
>
> Heh. For just updating the kernel, it's automatic in Wheezy and
> beyond. but for other purposes, it's a real riot. You might want to
> stay with lilo for the time being.
>
> But you do want to look closely at what Gene suggests about the
> location of your kernel.
>
> How big is your boot or root partition? (Is it separate?) If you have
> only one partition, that's likely to explain a lot of what's
> happening, including your observation that large SATA disks seem to
> fail too quickly.
Point is that I installed with separate partitions and the installer gave me
ridiculously sized partitions. When I wanted two kernels around, I had to move
to the current partition on the old 80gigger
Here is part of df:
/dev/sdb2 9949448 443728 8977268 5% /
/dev/sda5 8518920 7303804 759336 91% /usr
/dev/sda9 942340652 137805424 756643980 16% /opt
/dev/sda8 368615 2106 342957 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 2817056 2408016 246224 91% /var
/dev/sda9 is really home. I have /opt (and also usr/local) bound to home
because of so much extra space there and shortage elsewhere. The cache part of
/var is symlinked also to a folder on home. Otherwise, I would be absolutely
crippled.
The other one terra disk, most of which is not damaged, would provide lots of
place for a proper /usr and /var, but after the last adventure, what can I do?
>
> (Unless you are operating at temperature extremes, or in extremely
> dusty or humid environments, SATA disks should not fail especially
> fast. But a kernel update ending up stored beyond BIOS read limits
> could make them appear to fail.)
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