A couple of days ago I was startled when my little laptop, which had been running Fedora 7, alerted me to a issue with no apparent boot devices. This generally means you are fucked, but in my case I found that if I stuck a random DVD-R disc into my optical drive, the machine recognized my hard drive and booted up Fedora just fine. You may say, "Well Ben, it's just swell that you got your machine to boot after all and didn't have to fuss with a utterly fucked machine!" Well my friends, once the OS did boot I found that now my optical drive was not mounting... In fact it wasn't even updating on the BIOS. Well that is when I hit rock bottom. How am I to rip DVDs? How am I to enjoy the media and information that others want to share via an optical disc? After contempalating suicide, I cam into work today and found that when I booted my machine and loaded Fedora, there was a little icon on my desktop. Suddenly, with out warning, my optical drive was back. And now I am performing a fresh install of Fedora hoping that this will never happen again.
Just goes to show. Computers are fuckers.
About Me
- Benji
- A fresh slate demands a introduction, or at least some would assume. My name is Benjamin Campbell. I am twenty years old. I am employed with Audiovideoweb.com as a technical representative. I live a simple life in my hometown. But find myself aspiring to do bigger and greater things.