Cycling the Ruhr
Last Saturday we did a nice bike trip into the Ruhr valley. The weather was gorgeous (rare enough hereabout).
But mind it,
that was
freaking cold!
I know the movie is bad quality, but it really is me. Who else does ride a lila girlie-bike?
the never ending story...
In
this posting I wrote that my Ubuntu system sometimes just hangs at the boot up.
It happened again yesterday morning. I could boot into recovery mode, but when booting the full system I got
the error message
ata1.00: failed to set xfermode
and after several minutes you end up in a extremely low run-level (
initramfs -something) shell where the only useful command is
reboot.
That seems to be a hardware problem, it appears in some SATA systems with a couple of motherboards. I solved it with
this workaround. However it seems, that this does not reliably fix the business, there are some more options to try, but the involve fiddling around with the
hardware or the BIOS.
Ubuntu boot-splash
Ubuntu has this really ennoying feature that it does not show any log-messages on boot up.
In order to have them displayed on in your boot splash-screen, switch of the quiet option in grub, that is, replace
#defoptions=quiet splash
by
#defoptions=splash
in
/boot/grub/menu.lst.
The graphical boot splash can temporarily be switched off by
CTRL + ALT+ F1 or
permanently by setting
#defoptions=nosplash
After editing
/boot/grub/menu.lst you have to run
sudo update-grub
See this
Wiki-page for more details.
Or does your bash talk chinese?
There are some people who believe that I am a nerd. Hej, it's not true, and as a proof, here is what kind of completely unnerdy things I find funny.
And yes, there is a good chance that my bash's answer does actually make sense.
