FreeBSD 5.4 install problem. Newbee needs help.

From: William Manley (wmanley_at_intergate.com)
Date: 08/10/05

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    Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:11:53 -0400
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    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

    disklabel -r ad0
    no valid label found

    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. 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.

    Bill
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