I went back to working on the server, I managed to debootstrap onto one of the SATA disks. I got it all working.

I copied across everything I needed, lilo'd the SATA disk.

I rebooted, removed the IDE disk settings from the bios, tried to boot. "LI".

Hmm, what have I done wrong.. oops, wrong filesystem, the partition containing the kernel is ext3, and ext3 is a kernel module.

I reformatted to ext2, and tried again. Still no good.

Oops, dummy.. I moved the kernel into /boot, but lilo.conf has /vmlinuz in it, not /boot/vmlinuz.

Still no good. Ok, I don't know what the problem is now, maybe lilo is not working for some reason.. I found a command example with -v paramater. Aha, it gives me the version while it does it's thing.. this is older than the install on the IDE disk.. oh yeah, I've got woody on the SATA disk, and I haven't dist-upgraded yet (I lost track of how many installs I've done, 2 on this machine, so this is the third dist-upgrade I need to do).

In order to update lilo, I had to update a bunch of stuff. I forced in from the debs I'd already downloaded what I could, but there was still a few meg I couldn't find already having had downloaded.

It had a few meg to go, and I was just starting to write an email.

I noticed a bright flashing light out the window. A couple of seconds later the power went out. Hmm

I then saw another bright flash out the window, heard a really loud buzzing sound, and saw all sparks fly into the air (whatever I was looking at, the substation I assume, was at least a kilometre away), the power came back on for about 1/2 second, and then went off again.

I sat in the dark for a minute. Great.

I felt around, and found my watch. It was 11.23pm.

I navigated my way across the sink, got the candles out, found the box of matches, and tried to light one. All the matches are stuffed, and the phosphorus or whatever the head is all crumbles off the stick when I tried to light them.

I eventually got one to light, lit a candle.

What am I going to do now? I might as well go to bed.

I mucked around with matches and the candles for a while, never miss a chance to play with fire.

At midnight, I decided I might as well go to bed.

I plugged my mobile phone into charge, "it didn't beep as I plugged the charger in" I thought, oh yeah, what's it going to charge off?

I blew out the candle, and got into bed.

At 12.17am the power came back on. Everything started booting back up, and the light I had on came on. Whoops, next time I'll remember to turn all the switches off.

I got up, and started some stuff back up.

I went back to bed. The sat decoder was flashing.. no signal, the box it's chained off must be turned off for some reason.

Tivo was trying to record something, I tried to stop it recording, but it wouldn't, I was pressing record, then select, which I thought said "stop recording" but it doesn't, you need to press record, down, select, the default is "continue recording", I only found this after I turned the tv on.

Tivo was recording something of free to air anyway, so it didn't matter the sat didn't work.

I watched something, then I noticed the sat signal come back, about 10 minutes later.

I turned the tv off, and went to sleep.