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From: GHISLAIN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ghislain J. ROY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Help! ---> Can't load blk0 boot <-- ARGH!
Message-ID: <91031.142627GHISLAIN@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 31 Jan 91 22:26:27 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.184712.3159@agate.berkeley.edu>
 <1991Jan31.200838.20947@csn.org!datran2>
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In article <1991Jan31.200838.20947@csn.org!datran2>, smb@csn.org!datran2 says:
>
>In article <1991Jan31.184712.3159@agate.berkeley.edu> spenton@ssl.berkeley.edu
>() writes:
>>Ok, so I fucked up.  Here's what happened on my NeXTstation.
>>
>>Well, since the floppy wasn't the active disk, I was soon
>>horrified to see the "Initializing Internal Hard Disk" message.
>>
>but I must confess that I fail to see the utility of an option to
>reinitialize the boot hard drive.  I would strongly recommend that
>this be changed before too many people shoot themselves in the foot.
>
>Steve
>

Count me in! It happened as I wanted to reinitialize an external HD.

I call this the suicide of the NeXT. (OK so I helped a bit :-)
But if I remember correctly, my Mac just says NO to initializing a boot disk.

Any fix we can apply to prevent this kind of disaster??
Any chance that NeXT fixes that soon?  Or is there a strong reason for this to
exist besides trapping naive or inattentive users?

                                      -Ghislain

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