Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:45:04 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Whee, another fun one Message-ID: <199507150045.RAA29787@kithrup.com>
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This one is *really* neat. I was trying to add emacs, for various reasons. But pkg_add wouldn't let me, because my /tmp was too small, even after I added MFS to my kernel and a 30MByte memfs off of /dev/sd0s1b (same as swap). So, I tried using the -t option; it still didn't work. So then I started debugging it. Since I wasn't working on the console, I have no idea what happened, but my login session suddenly hung. I thought it was just the normal delay I'd been seeing (and reported last night), but, after a few minutes, I decided that was pretty unlikely, and took a look at the console. It had rebooted (a panic, I assume), and was waiting for me to insert a bootable floppy -- for some reason, the MBR has disappeared, and the hard disk is no longer a "bootable disk"! So... this is bad. Also, how do I fix it, without reinstalling the whole OS again? ;) Sean.
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