From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 10:53: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-52-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8FB14CA0 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 10:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id UAA06046; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:50:45 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199903131850.UAA06046@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Horror story In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990313082158.008eaa20@mail.bfm.org> from "G. Adam Stanislav" at "Mar 13, 99 08:21:58 am" To: zen@buddhist.com (G. Adam Stanislav) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:50:43 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > I posted it here and not in questions because whenever I have posted a > problem in questions, my mail box was swamped by multitude of rude > messages, essentially telling me that if I am stupid I should not run Unix. > > I really wish you wouldn't have forwarded my message. I'd rather not be > able to use FreeBSD than go through the questions nightmare again! Besides, > since I do not subscribe to questions, even if someone replies, I will not > see it. > > Incidentally, I have since re-installed everything. This time I was not > disconnected and wnet through the entire installation process. But at boot > time, it says I have an empty slice, and refuses to boot. Adam, I'm author/maintainer of the i386 boot code in FreeBSD 3.x/4.x. If you're still having problems, you're welcome to contact me off-line, and we can probably get you up and running again fairly quickly. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message