Have you tried booting it?

Is zfs, and may now show files

audio cd's are never mounted. You just point the player to the device

just an update. i grabbed nomBSD, which has a gui front end/live media.

i was able to get a gui started. having issues getting things configured, but it looks like it works. Maybe within an update or two, things will work for us

I believe FreeBSD , at the oment, only supports this chipset in FreeBSD 15.

Maybe others with more knowledge will chime in

I installed from packages - commands in the last paragraph above. I haven't installed anything from source, so no mixed install on the system. Weird, I installed the same and from the terminal for both calibre & ebook-viewer; [rodney@watton] calibre failed to authenticate magic 1 failed to load...

How did you install calibre?

pkg or source?

do you mean logging in via the log in manager? not allowed.

if root has no password, as your user, do the following in a terminal;

sudo passwd root <enter>

enter the password.

to get into the root account, in a terminal type

su -

one of your re-installs over wrote the boot/eif

quickest way, reinstall refind

Try this link

https://youtu.be/uJtLJGujjhM?si=DM9Kdw5XKggv4jmR

what video card?