Share Your Stories of Accidents and Annoyances..
Share Your Stories of Accidents and Annoyances..
So I was thinking of silly things I've done that pseudo-broke my system, or made me think I had a broken system. Like the time I put the cmd :
exit
in my ~/.bash_aliases file and I had to open a text editor to fix it because that broke all the terminals on my machine.
I'm curious what other silly things users have done to confuse themselves.
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A few years back, I was installing Arch on an external hard disk. I was basically done, so I powered off the system, but I forgot to unmount the hard disk.
Then I tried to boot to the OS on my computer, which was also Arch, and it got stuck at the BIOS splash screen. No luck rebooting.
I remember panicking (because that was my only machine) and asking my computer teacher what to do and he also had no idea.
I ended up manually unplugging and replugging the hard disk inside the case and it worked. To this day I still don't know what went wrong.
It seem just an error. Computer shouldn't have a problem with not unmount HDD. It should just not detect the HDD
Sorry if my english is wrong
That's right. It should not have the problem. That's why this is confusing.