While on vacation in Costa Rica, the server crashed. The fairly new Lenovo box would not boot. The problem appeared to be a faulty motherboard. Deciding that replacing the motherboard could lead to another failure, I decided to build a new system using the working memory, hard drive and dvd. Fry's Electronics seemed like a good choice for a parts. I found a Cooler Master Case, MSI motherboard, Intel process and a 600w power supply all at a reasonable price. Normally I turn down extended warranties, but this time I said yes.
At checkout, I was asked to sign the extended warranty. One item caught my eye. By adding peripherals the warranty would be voided. That doesn't make sense. I'm buying a motherboard to add peripherals. That is what a motherboard does. When the Fry's employee check, he confirmed that yes, adding any non Fry's peripheral would invalidate the warranty. He said that policy had never been enforced. With my luck I would be the first. Needless to say I cancelled the extended warranty. Just reinforces my belief to never buy extended warranties.
The good news the server is back up and working just great. After assembling the new system, reusing peripherals from the crashed system, Ubuntu 10.04 booted right up. The only change needed was to comment out the old mac address in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and change the new mac address to eth0. Try that with windows.
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