Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:30:17 -0500 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Jd <jd@jackdan.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 will not boot Message-ID: <200304041930.17340.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <3E89DCF7.2080902@jackdan.net> References: <3E89DCF7.2080902@jackdan.net>
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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 01:39 pm, 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 Welcome to FreeBSD, but I concur with Greg. Have a look here: http://mired.org:8080/5.0-not-production.html If you don't want to run -current, freebsd-questions, is the better venue for general questions. > 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 Luckily, thats an easy one: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html The other sections of the FreeBSD handbook will be very useful to you too as you learn the system. btw, what M$ article were you referring to, do you have a link? good luck, Tim
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