oVirt node upgrade is failing after the "Stop services" step? It's probably a simple fix - /var might be running out of space. Read on to confirm with me.
I have multiple hosts which I have upgraded multiple times throughout oVirt's 4.4 and 4.5 lifecycle so far …
I needed to migrate my vProtect server from CentOS 7 to something EL8 based. As there's no good way to in-place upgrade, I needed to "restore" the vProtect server installation on to a new install.
I had to replace the hardware of a server that was booting in UEFI mode with a board that only supported legacy booting, so I also needed to convert the system back to MBR.
This machine was previously booting in UEFI mode happily, until the motherboard failed. I …
The EPSON HX-20 sold with an optional add-on, a dual Floppy unit, that turns out to need it's own boot disk. I don't have one, so let's make one using the disks in the unit and a bog standard 486 PC.
The EPSON HX-20 was what most consider to …
This guide is quite out of date; it should still work but please note that me_cleaner now does some of this for you.
Despite vaguely reading the opposite, it is possible to truncate the ME region to the last byte that me_cleaner left untouched. This (on my image …
See https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2016/11/13/coreboot-on-the-thinkpad-x220-with-a-raspberry-pi/
I have a 2006 Mazda 3. It's a nice car, but the more I learnt about the 3 I get ever so slightly more annoyed with Mazda Australia. There's multiple things that the car "supports" but wasn't sold with in Australia.
One of them (and the easiest of …