I always have a knack for testing and deploying Linux/BSD distros on my Big Black Box.
But somewhere last week I pulled in the latest kernel, configured and compiled in less than an hour.
Some hours later when I remembered to reboot , to my distraught I realised that I managed to disfigure my lilo.conf file and bricked totally my slackware install.
Most of my time was lost into finding a good ide cable for my old 500GB hard disk and when I found one...