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
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
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 installationWelcome 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 :PLuckily, 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