From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 20:27:51 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 B0E4B16A47C for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:27:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from xsmtp01.mail2web.com (xsmtp01.mail2web.com [168.144.250.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2217643CB6 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:26:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from [168.144.108.17] (helo=M2W017.mail2web.com) by xsmtp01.mail2web.com with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GvJei-0002CD-U3; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:27:50 -0500 Message-ID: <380-2200612515202744924@M2W017.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Originating-IP: 84.71.58.250 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk" To: bsam@ipt.ru Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:27:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: *** SPAM *** Re: Failure to compile X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:27:51 -0000 Original Message: ----------------- From: Boris Samorodov bsam@ipt=2Eru Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:50:25 +0300 To: brian@levie=2Efreeserve=2Eco=2Euk, freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD=2Eorg Subject: *** SPAM *** Re: Failure to compile Hello, Brian! On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:34:05 -0500 brian@levie=2Efreeserve=2Eco=2Euk wrote= : > I did not realise FreeBSD had a C compiler, I decided to reformat the > partition and reinstall FreeBSD=2E It appeared to go well but after exi= ting > the install I cannot boot it, I get the error message ' Unable to load a= > Kernel', what has happened=3F You did something wrong=2E ;-) To avoid spending much time I usually install FreeBSD with "minimal" configuration=2E It takes some 5-10 minutes only=2E That I reboot the system=2E If it boots I use sysinstall to add other needed stuff (ports, docs, sources, some initial packages etc=2E) If the system doesn't boot, well, I spend an other couple of 5-10 minutes to reinstall the OS=2E WBR --=20 Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www=2Eipt=2Eru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www=2EFreeBSD=2Eorg The Power To Serve Many thanks for your reply, I installed as you suggested and everything works fine! Cannot understand why=2E Even cc (not now the Xenix version != )=2E Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E