From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 18 14:54:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 14:54:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nordier.com (c3-dbn-39.dial-up.net [196.33.200.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E0B37B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:54:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by nordier.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBIMs4u10794; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:54:04 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from rnordier) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <200012182254.eBIMs4u10794@nordier.com> Subject: Re: 4.2 Boot. Should i report a bug? To: cliff@raggedclown.net (Cliff Sarginson) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:54:04 +0200 (SAST) Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <00121822455602.02118@buffy> from "Cliff Sarginson" at Dec 18, 2000 10:45:56 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2000 22:35, Robert Nordier wrote: > > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > I find your expression "elementary boot stuff" rather offensive. > > > I have spent a very long time on this problem. > > > > > > > Send in a PR if you wish, though, and I'll look at it. > > > > > > Well you don't sound that interested. > > > If it was my code I would show a bit more interest ! > > > > I already sent you a message a week ago offering help, to no effect: > > | From rnordier Mon Dec 11 23:25:47 2000 > > | Subject: Re: Booting 4.2 > > | To: danh@gelatinous.com, cliff@raggedclown.net > > | Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:25:47 +0200 (SAST) > > | Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org > > | > > | I'd be happy to work with anyone who is having problems with the i386 > > | bootstraps. You'll both have to go into more detail, though, before > > | this kind of report is actually useful. (All I can gather, for now, > > | is that nothing you tried worked, except LILO....) > > > > In the circumstances, you have nothing whatever to complain of. > > Except I never saw your message. > I am not complaining. I believe reporting bugs to be an important > activity. Your immediate conclusion that it is an 'elementary boot stuff" > problem does not encourage someone who has spent a lot of hours assuming > he had misunderstood something, then coming to the conclusion that there > was indeed something wrong. > > I found the tone of your message offensive. > We are not all idiots :) Hmm. On rereading my original message, I guess the tone is rather dismissive: sorry about that. -- Robert Nordier rnordier@nordier.com rnordier@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message