On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:57:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD >>> 4.8 on it has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition >>> to a fresh IDE disk with cp -pR and >> >> You should use dump and restore to copy the root partition, see: > > I'd done that before trying cp -pR, as outlined by rse@: > > dump -L -0 -f- /old | (cd /new && restore -r -v -f-) > http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > > which isn't too different. I think I know what the problem is: I made > the new single slice and FreeBSD partition on it and ran newfs -U on > it using the latest FreeBSD 5.x livecd toolkit, and later 4.8 can't > even mount that partition (mount /dev/ad0s1a /mnt) failing with > "incorrect superblock", so I think its /boot/loader can't load the > kernel because of FS issues (but strangely enough pressing "?" at the > boot loader prompt lists directory entries of the root FS just fine). > It turns out UFS isn't upwards compatible from releases 4.8 -> 5.5. > I'll try running newfs -U from 4.8. Last time I checked many 4.8 > binaries couldn't run due to disk errors, I hope newfs runs ok...
You need to create a UFS1 file system. Also, root file systems usually don't have soft updates (-U) enabled. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
