At 06:11 PM 8/9/2005, William Manley 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 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
That may be because the filesystem is not marked as clean. Try using fsck
to verify it's consistency. If that works, you should be able to mount it.
disklabel -r ad0
no valid label found
If you're using slices (which it looks like you are from the dev name
above) you should do bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 to see the partitions in that slice.
Output from bsdlabel will look something like this assuming you used the
defailts when you installed:
test54# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1
# /dev/ad0s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 524288 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
b: 2042752 524288 swap
c: 390716802 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
don't edit
d: 524288 2567040 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
e: 524288 3091328 4.2BSD 2048 16384 32776
f: 387101186 3615616 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
a should be your root partition.
d would be /var.
e is /tmp.
and f would be /usr.
assuming you used the defaults.
ls did show something.
ls /dev/ad0*
/dev/ad0 /dev/ad0sla /dev/ad0s1c /dev/ad0s1e
/dev/ad0s1 /dev/ad0s1b /dev/ad0s1d /dev/ad0s1f
fdisk /dev/ad0
working on /dev/ad0
figures below won't work with bios for partitions not in cyl 1. Parameters
to be used for bios calculations are:
cylinders= 77504 heads= 16 sectors/track= 63 (1008 blks/cyl)
media sector size is 512
Warning: bios sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS boot block is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sys id 165 (0xa5), (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 78124032 (38146 meg) flag 80 active
beg: cly0/ head1/ sector 1
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
Does the warning tell me that my bios is not set up properly for FreeBSD
to work with the hardisk setup.
That warning is always there. It's just a reminder that sectors are
numbered 1-63 not 0-62.
The handbook says to set up your bios to select hardisk's naturally.
Before starting the install I looked at the bios and was not sure what to
configure. Should I go to the basic page and set the hardisk as
uninstalled? Any help in getting back into my system will be appreciated.
If I have to reinstall I'll do it.
Most BIOS will auto detect the hard drive just fine. If you stick with the
defaults you should be fine.
-Glenn
Bill
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