From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 03:18:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8511B37B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 03:18:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42BD743F85 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 03:18:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jd@jackdan.net) Received: from server.jackdan.net ([65.95.48.145]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <20030402111809.ETLX10384.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@server.jackdan.net> for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:18:09 -0500 Received: from jackdan.net (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by server.jackdan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C17D8F2 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 13:38:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E89DCF7.2080902@jackdan.net> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 13:39:51 -0500 From: Jd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD 5.0 will not boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:18:11 -0000 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) Anyways, any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. P.S. Apart from the little (very annoying) glitch, freeBSD is preeeeettttty nice... I must admit i'm very impressed. Just gotta get those cvs flags down now :P Thanks, Jd