Hmm I'm beginning to think I ought to invest in a 5MW UPS. Had another momentary bounce in the power tonight. Been a really windy day, reasonably warm too, but I guess we are getting ready for spring here.

Last time the power bounced, was not long after I managed to get the Ubuntu to load the right kernel at startup. Unsure what's really wrong with it. It was upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04, and had a partial 20 on it. All those kernels are still there, but on the 16.04 kernal will load properly.

So having been unable to coerce grub into loading the old kernel, I found a setting so that it'd continue to load the last used kernel in the future. And presto problem solved boss, so I thought.

Of course it failed to boot the next time, which had me miffed. Had to get the monitot and keyboard back out to see what was going on. Failure to detect HD's at boot... did they not spin up, were they too slow? The Mobo its using, a "Shuttle" seems to have the IDE interface still there as a hang over rather than primary storage device, it looks for all the world like an extra BIOS addition like older SCSI cards did. Anyway the systems been on that drive so long now, I just keep shuffling it from box to box.

So having gotten the monitot and keyboard out in expectation of problems this time, it proceeded to boot without issue. Head scratch... abberation? luck, or was failure and absence of luck? So the headless beast continues to support a head while I wait for time to tell me which way its going to work reliably.

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