The computer upgrade

Installed the new motherboard and processor. Booted up. It said that my slave IDE is in fact master, and broken, and did not find the master at all.

Checked all connections. Booted. Same result.

Danced a rain dance in the nude, changed the new IDE cable to the old one. Booted. Now it found everything just fine. I guess it is just one of those small mysteries of life.

Tried to install Kubuntu. Installed. Booted. Updated. Failed to boot.

Figured that having a /boot partition was a bad idea to begin with. Repartitioned. Failed to install. The installer referred me to /target/var/log/bootstrapper.log, which wasn't there.

Repeated several times before realizing that fucked something up with primary and logical partitions. Repartitioned. Installed. Xorg still doesn't work but at least the thing boots and finds the network.

Said "fuck it" and buggered off to work without my morning tea.