Archives for: "June 2009"

How to reinstall grub on an existing partition

June 12th, 2009
Here's how I reinstalled grub on my Ubuntu installs:grub> find /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) grub> root (hd0,0)grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/grub/stage2" e… more »

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cpio

June 12th, 2009
I've been using cpio to do file backups for a while now but only recently had to restore from them. Here's the command I use for backups:find . -print | cpio -pdm /media/sdb3Here is is with gzip*add command*Here is the extractcpio -i… more »

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MythTV Backend Upgrade - Kubuntu 7.04 to 9.04

June 11th, 2009
Last weekend I finally decided to upgrade the MythTV backend from .20 to .21. In Ubuntu, this means also upgrading the OS in order to get access to the upgraded packages. I honestly expected this to be sort of a no-brainer which was much of the reasoni… more »

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