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Just a month ago this happened.....
I had gotten both XP & Linux to dual boot just fine, but XP was the default and I wanted to change it. No prob, I've done this before, go in and edit lilo.conf. Well, I edited it alright and forgot the link telling lilo where the OS is (what partition). So when I rebooted and went into linux it would just kernal panic during boot. Couldn't edit the file from XP so I ended up reinstalling linux, on the bright side there was nothing of value lost just a few hours.
My only other story was in the late 80's, we had a mac Plus and I still couldn't read. When you shut those systems down it said "It's now safe to turn off your Macintosh" with a button to reboot. Now we turned it off at hte power stip. Not knowing what hte message said figured I was supposed to hit the button as I flipped off the power. Amazingly we NEVER had any dataloss for all the time I did this.
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