Re: <newbie> FreeBSD only boots to text display

wackedondrugs wrote:
I am new to BSD and thought that I had completed my first install but upon the final reboot the system boots to a text display instead of the Gnome desktop that I thought that I had chosen during the install. Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this?

The FreeBSD Handbook is a good starting point for basic information about common features.

You can use 'startx' to start the X Windows session once you login. If you're looking for a GUI on boot, then I believe you need to set up XDM or similar...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html

I don't have any experience with XDM, I prefer to run without X as I only have FreeBSD on my servers.

RL
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