This is amusing... I went to install Fedora Core 9 on on Celeron D CPU that I have... and couldn't because of load shedding. The thing was that it took so long for Fedora to install, that by the time the thing was nearing completion, I used to lose electricity. And I hadn't put the machine on my n-hour UPS.
One weird condition arose when Fedora DID install successfully, and on the first boot, I lost power and the machine shut down. When the power came up, the file system got mounted read-only for some reason and then the firstboot service couldn't write to disk. I tried doing an fsck, but that didn't do any wonders. The weird part is that I couldn't access the console tty's from the firstboot screen by doing a Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc. I had to murder the X screen by Ctrl-Alt-Bksp and that gave me prefdm errors by the ton. I could then access the console tty's. Weird.
Anyhow, I reinstalled the system again, and now its running good.
So who's to blame... Fedora for taking long to install, or MSEB, for keeping power on for short durations? I think we will all agree to blame MSEB. :-)
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