From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 12:24:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA18413 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA18312 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ag26352; 27 Jun 96 19:20 GMT Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa26910; 27 Jun 96 18:09 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00760; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 11:07:51 GMT Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 11:07:51 GMT Message-Id: <199606271107.LAA00760@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: PenDragon_NS@wow.com CC: QUESTIONS@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606270201_MC1-595-2CE3@compuserve.com> (message from PenDragon NS on Thu, 27 Jun 1996 02:01:17 -0400) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Won't Boot Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > After using novice install and during the post-configuration, I > recieved a "fatal error 11 caught! I'm dead!" message. I had to > reboot. The kernel loads fine but once bootup begins querying daemons > I get messages saying login, password, hostname, domain are bad or > don't exist. At the end of it all, it keeps asking me to log in. Is > there anyway to fix this without completely reinstaling? If you didn't get as far as setting the machine's hostname before it crashed, sendmail will complain about it; if you didn't add any users, you will not be able to log in as those users, only as root. The "fatal error" message means that something (it's hard to say what) went badly wrong and caused an unrecoverable error, leaving you with only a partially installed system. Personally, I'd be inclined to start again, rather than taking any chances. BTW just a minor point, but could you press the return key every 70-72 characters? I've re-formatted your mail in my reply, but it arrived as a single very long line, which some people may have found difficult to read. Cheers! -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk