See, once upon a time, in the days of yore, you used to be able to rely on kernels with even minor version numbers to be fairly stable.
In other words, they wouldn't corrupt your filesystem.
Last night, I was installing a new kernel version, trying to get my Nvidia drivers to play happily with OpenGL again. Kernel 2.6.8, to be exact. I rebooted, and everything seemed to be working fine. I compiled the lastest version of the drivers, and everything still seemed to be working fine. At least until X crashed really hard; hard enough to force me to reboot the computer. After that reboot, it took a hard power-cycle for the BIOS to recognize that I had a harddrive again. Then another couple of reboots for LILO to remember that it really was installed in the master boot record. Then it finally started booting, only for fsck to check the drive 5 times in a row, finding about 20 gazillion errors everytime.
Yeah. That's when I gave my Linux install up as a lost cause, and found my Debian net install cd. I was actually to get most of my data off the partition; we'll see how much is actually usable in a day or two.
Posted by Ardith at September 8, 2004 09:22 AM | TrackBack