After 5 years of continuous running and no maintenance, our Fedora Core 5 webserver died the other week. I was in the process of building its replacement, perhaps it took umbrage. Suddenly all the configuration files became unreadable due to failure of some font handler. What I should of done was stay with it and immediately back everything up onto a removable drive. What I did do, after years of Windoze brainwashing, was shut down and reboot. What happened then was that the GRUB loader failed to find and read the correct files and will not boot. Mounting the hard drive to another machine shows a boot sector and an unreadable partition - with all our data.
The fact that you are reading this shows that the new server is coming on stream. When I find a way to recover the old data, hopefully my old blogs will reappear.