From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 17:49:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA2A16A40F for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:49:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E49343CA9 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:47:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from doc.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GvHBL-0008M7-9l; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:49:15 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GvHCT-00057T-FA; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:50:25 +0300 To: brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk References: <380-220061251516345670@M2W012.mail2web.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:50:25 +0300 In-Reply-To: <380-220061251516345670@M2W012.mail2web.com> (brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:34:05 -0500") Message-ID: <89896126@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Failure to compile X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:49:17 -0000 Hello, Brian! On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:34:05 -0500 brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk wrote: > I did not realise FreeBSD had a C compiler, I decided to reformat the > partition and reinstall FreeBSD. It appeared to go well but after exiting > the install I cannot boot it, I get the error message ' Unable to load a > Kernel', what has happened? You did something wrong. ;-) To avoid spending much time I usually install FreeBSD with "minimal" configuration. It takes some 5-10 minutes only. That I reboot the system. If it boots I use sysinstall to add other needed stuff (ports, docs, sources, some initial packages etc.) If the system doesn't boot, well, I spend an other couple of 5-10 minutes to reinstall the OS. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve