From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 04:28:36 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 B732437B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 04:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from host185.dolanmedia.com (host185.dolanmedia.com [209.98.197.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D63BF43FA3 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 04:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg.panula@dolaninformation.com) Received: (qmail 49164 invoked by uid 0); 2 Apr 2003 12:28:35 -0000 Received: from greg.panula@dolaninformation.com by proxy by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.15 ( Clear:. Processed in 1.186249 secs); 02 Apr 2003 12:28:35 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: greg.panula@dolaninformation.com via proxy X-Qmail-Scanner-Rcpt-To: jd@jackdan.net,freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.15 (Clear:. Processed in 1.186249 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO mail.dolanmedia.com) (10.1.1.23) by host185.dolanmedia.com with SMTP; 2 Apr 2003 12:28:33 -0000 Received: from dolaninformation.com (10.1.1.135) by mail.dolanmedia.com (Worldmail 1.3.167); 2 Apr 2003 06:28:33 -0600 Sender: pang@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3E8AD771.8DE7730D@dolaninformation.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 06:28:33 -0600 From: Greg Panula Organization: Dolan Information Center Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jd References: <3E89DCF7.2080902@jackdan.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 will not boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: greg.panula@dolaninformation.com 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 12:28:37 -0000 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