Solved Multi user boot glitches right before login.

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Windyday11

Hello, a complete beginner here. I tried installing the MATE desktop following a bunch of youtube tutorials, but at first the startx command didn't work, and now everytime I try to boot into multi user, the screen just shows this:
 

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SirDice said:
Configure X correctly before enabling GDM or some other display manager.

docs.freebsd.org

Chapter 5. The X Window System

This chapter describes how to install and configure the X Window System providing a graphical environment
docs.freebsd.org docs.freebsd.org
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I don't really know how to do that since I can't access multi user, and single user is in read-only mode.
Sorry, I don't really understand anything that has to do with code, which I think I should have before trying to install FreeBSD.
 
Windyday11 said:
and single user is in read-only mode.
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For ZFS:
zfs set readonly=off zroot/ROOT/default
zfs mount -a
For UFS:
mount -a # Should mount everything and remount / read/write.

Windyday11 said:
I don't really understand anything that has to do with code
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Doesn't have anything to do with code. But you're going to need to get comfortable editing/modifying configuration files on FreeBSD because you will need to do that quite often.
 
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