when she refused to be logical

These last 3 weeks, is a frustating moment. Actually my job is simple: install servers, then implement a disaster recovery plan. The first problem arose when i stupidly didn’t know how to manage a simple kernel module load at early boot stage via initrd. This took me 10 days to discover.

The worse is the last 12 days, when simply i need that kernel module to be loaded at boot time on a “centos livecd”. i need the livecd version of centos for recovering my server in case of severe hardware failures. all the toolsets, including coffees, bags of tong tji tea, new macbook battery (wow, how many rupiahs i’ve spent? –my last battery was unfortunately died), new 2GB RAM for the macbook, “tahu baxo” ungaran, “martabak mesir”, cadburry choco drinks, are set, but that-actually-easy-task is frustating me and took me 12 days to discover the solution. evenmore, the solution i’ve found is somewhat really simple and nothing “geeky” at all.

i think now she refused to be logical. i think she is more “human” now, forgot of what her dignity is. Fuhh.. or maybe i am getting old, old enough.

Enough for this nonsense. Here what should i do next time:

1. mostly, kernel module / driver need to be “the same version” with the kernel loaded at boot time
2. create livecd / recovery cd with i386 arch, and on a host WITHOUT LVM (because of a bug on mkinitrd)
3. simply do trial and error as much as i can