Grrr. Woke up this morning, came into the computer room and heard a nasty grinding whirring noise. At first thought it was the fan on the laptop, perhaps gone bad with a dodgy bearing as they some times do.
Next, noticed it wouldn't get out of screen saver. They crash sometimes, so no worries really. Then noticed I couldn't connect to it in any way from my other computer. Also not too bad.
So, power it off, leave it for a while so that the fans won't have to run, and then start it up. Uh oh, this time a very sad looking "No home folder" icon flashing. Not good. By now some of you may have guessed that my laptop's hard drive has in fact crashed. I've tried target disk mode onto both my linux box and Liz's laptop but no luck there. The linux box shows me:
[292836.278829] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023
[292836.278980] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
Eeeck. So, I'm going to have to grab another disk, pull the thing apart and perform some surgery. Luckily, I backed up the contents of my home folder to a computer at work this week just gone, so I shouldn't loose too much.
It's amazing how costs spring out of nowhere when you think you have a budget for a wedding and travel all organised.