Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:21:52 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> To: William Manley <wmanley@intergate.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 install problem. Newbee needs help. Message-ID: <20050810132152.7932cce7.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <42F95459.5080208@intergate.com> References: <42F95459.5080208@intergate.com>
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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:11:53 -0400 William Manley <wmanley@intergate.com> wrote: > I am a new FreeBSD user and I have an installation that has gone bad. > My problems started when I enabled XDM for a graphical logon into > Gnome. When I logged in as root the system just looped back to the > logon screen. I then assumed I had configured my .xinitrc file wrong xdm,gdm,kdm,wdm do not use your .xinitrc (but they can use your .Xsession or .xsession file), .xinitrc is only used with the command startx > so I booted the install cdrom into Fixit mode and tried to mount the > root filesystem on the hardisk which the operating system would not > let me do. The following are the commands I typed with the output. > > mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt > operation not permitted you could instead boot from harddisc in "single mode" (sp?), then remove xdm or configure xdm properly or use gdm or use gnome-session in your .xinitrc
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