Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:42:05 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Horror story Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990312184205.008eabe0@mail.bfm.org>
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Hello, folks, I do not know what else to call it but a horror story. Yesterday I received my new 10.2 Gig hard drive. I ordered it because I was running FreeBSD on a 60 Meg slice I cut out of my Windows disk. Well, my BIOS CMOS would not accept 10.2 Gig. I called the manufacturer's tech support, and explained I needed a @ Gig slice for Windows, and the rest for FreeBSD. "For what?" Unix, you know, FreeBSD. "Oh, no problem, you need Ontrack Disk Manager. That will let you do that. Download it from our web site." I did as advised. It turned out Disk Manager is a brain dead piece of software. It partitioned the disk into 5 2 Gig partitions, and OVEROTE my MBR!!! Form then on, I was unable to log back on to my small FreeBSD system. So, I uninstalled Disk Manager and deleted all partitions but the first one. No good. My MBR was still coming up with Disk Manager! I logged onto FreeBSD.org and read the section on how to restore my MBR. The software said it restored my MBR successfully. Rejoiced, I rebooted, just to get the Disk Manager again. I finally decided to say good bye to everything I had on my FreeBSD and to install version 3.1 from scratch. This morning, I started the ftp download. Nine hours later, I was disconnected from my ISP (it has happened before, and they always blamed it on me, so I did not even bother calling them). The install program happily continued with the system setup. adding users, configuring fonts, etc. Then I rebooted. Got as far as "boot:". From then on, no matter what I typed in (such as wd1, wd1s2a, or just plain enter), the "boot:" thing just kept coming. I got this wonderful hard disk, I got the most powerful OS in the world on it, but I cannot use it. Any suggestions??? Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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