Jd wrote:
Hi everyone, I released turned to FreeBSD simply because I am
discouraged with windows and there security scheme (did you guys see the
document microsoft wrote about how to stop windows from sending out info
about your computer onto the net? it's freaking 250 pages, and that
doesn't cover all the xtra exploits that can come in your computer).
Anyways, I recently tried 4.8 rc2, and it worked like a charm. So I
wanted to try 5.0...that was a problem.
Unfortunately, 5.0 won't boot for me. I go through the installation
procedure without a glitch. But then, when comes first boot, after the
initial message (when you have a 10 second delay and you push enter) all
I get is hex being dumped to my screen, and alot of it. Now I think I
read somewhere that FreeBSD5.0 now comes with a splash screen when it
boots. I have a geforce ti4200. To make X work (under 4.8) I needed to
get the nvidia drivers, would this affect anything? If so, how do I get
to install those drivers before I can get a first boot? (I tried
booting from the cd, and getting a shell, but I can't even 'ls' from
that shell)
If it hurts when you do that, don't do that. :)
Just run 4.8, 5.0 is still beta code.
If you're still interested in trying 5.0... first see if you can get it
run without X windows. Instead of pressing the enter key, press the any
key to get a boot prompt and then type 'boot -s' to boot into single
user mode. If you can boot into single user mode, then you know the OS
can boot. And problem is most likely with getting X to run. Don't know
how to really explain how to trouble-shoot X windows problems. But you
might want to try using the stock nvidia driver or the stock vga driver
that comes with X before attempting to using the drivers provided by
nvidia(not sure those work with 5.0 anyways).
Comment out the line in /etc/ttys that contains xdm -nodaemon to keep
freebsd from starting X windows at boot-up. Make sure at least ttyv0 is
uncommented, so you'll get a console prompt.
But since you're new to freebsd, I suggest sticking with 4.8 and getting
a feel for it. This will give you a stable platform to learn with and
an idea of how to trouble-shoot problems.
Good luck,
greg
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