pincorrect
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- Jan 2, 2017
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I am setting up a new system with a Supermicro X11SSH-F motherboard, 8 sata disks for storage, and two 32gb USB 3.0 flash drives for booting. I installed from the latest 9.10-STABLE iso (mounted as a virtual cd via IPMI), selecting the 2 USB drives (da0 and da1) for installation.
That seemed to proceed normally. When it finished, it told me to remove my installation disk and reboot. I did this, and it booted from the USB drives.
When it rebooted, the usual hardware messages appeared, then finally it said "Press ESC in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue." I just let that time out. I expected that this would take me to the "Console Setup Menu" as described in Chapter 3 of the the manual (Booting). I planned to get into the FreeBSD shell and do further testing of my new hardware before building my disk array.
However, instead of getting the Console Setup Menu, it simply dropped me into a "Shell>" prompt. I cannot seem to do anything here, not even "ls" (Cannot open current directory - No Mapping) or pwd (not recognized). Where did it put me and how do I make it bring up the Console Setup Menu described in the documentation? Did I forget to do something during the install? I expected it to boot straight into this menu, from the documentation.
Also confusing to me is the next part of the manual describes the administrative gui and describes the login/password dialog for the root password chosen during setup, and then the main gui. How to I make it go from the Console Setup Menu (once I figure out how to get that up!) to the full gui interface?
Thanks!
That seemed to proceed normally. When it finished, it told me to remove my installation disk and reboot. I did this, and it booted from the USB drives.
When it rebooted, the usual hardware messages appeared, then finally it said "Press ESC in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue." I just let that time out. I expected that this would take me to the "Console Setup Menu" as described in Chapter 3 of the the manual (Booting). I planned to get into the FreeBSD shell and do further testing of my new hardware before building my disk array.
However, instead of getting the Console Setup Menu, it simply dropped me into a "Shell>" prompt. I cannot seem to do anything here, not even "ls" (Cannot open current directory - No Mapping) or pwd (not recognized). Where did it put me and how do I make it bring up the Console Setup Menu described in the documentation? Did I forget to do something during the install? I expected it to boot straight into this menu, from the documentation.
Also confusing to me is the next part of the manual describes the administrative gui and describes the login/password dialog for the root password chosen during setup, and then the main gui. How to I make it go from the Console Setup Menu (once I figure out how to get that up!) to the full gui interface?
Thanks!