Invalid Partion - help on setting up loader

[Johnson David]

Sorry for jumping in late, but I just got back from the Christmas 
holidays...

On Friday 26 December 2003 07:55 am, rob copsey wrote:

> This is a good question, and one that I've pondered too.
> I think the people who developed the charter for this list
> had premonitions of it becoming the "cliff notes" version
> of the handbook for those who would intend to bypass the learning
> process. So, in fairness to those who worked so hard preparing
> the handbook and others who donate their time writing articles
> and how-tos; this list isn't just a quick overview/summary.

This list isn't meant to be "cliff notes". It's not to be any sort of 
technical support at all. There are several great lists for technical 
questions, and this isn't one of them.

The reason is simple, but needs a bit of pondering to understand why. 
FreeBSD has an unparalled reputation of stability. This reputation 
would be destroyed if people new to FreeBSD got bad advice.

So why would you get bad advice from this forum? Because we're all 
newbies! We don't know what we're talking about. Getting technical 
support from a newbie site is like (pardon the cliche) the blind 
leading the blind. It's silly. Just because random bits of bad advice 
from inexperienced users is the normal mode of support for Linux means 
that it we should do the same.

We have lists that are monitored by experienced users. This is not one 
of them. The reason technical questions are not allowed here because 
they imply technical answers. Newbies aren't qualified to give complete 
and accurate answers to technical questions.

David