Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-25 Thread jflowers
I wound up using kraduk's suggestion except for using a snapshot instead of a live file system. Because the source disk had suffered DMA errors and a few files lost to SOFT UPDATE errors, I built a full system first and then let rsync merge the two. mount -u -o snapshot /snapshot/snap1 / mdconfig

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-25 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:11:21PM +0100, krad wrote: > Personally id stay away from dd. Create the partitions and file systems > manually, and install the boot loader, then rsync the data across. It will > be a lot faster in most cases, as unlike dd you wont be copying unused > space. Something li

RE: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-24 Thread krad
/** / /mnt I'm assuming you weren't migrating due to a bad disk -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jim Flowers Sent: 23 June 2009 05:55 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won'

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Any help on direction to solve this? > > try fdisk -B /dev/ad0 > > but even better next time don't make slices, only disklabel. It just > make life simpler. I still don't understand why sysinstall by default > create them. It should be only used when

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to another - essentially the same size. The disk device name (ad4) is the same but the geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63 On booting it hangs at: F1FreeBSD Boot: F1 I copied the MBR with 'boot0cfg -B -o

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Jim Flowers wrote: > I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to > another - essentially the same size. The disk device name (ad4) is > the same but the geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63 > > On booting it hangs at: > > F1FreeBSD

dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-22 Thread Jim Flowers
I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to another - essentially the same size. The disk device name (ad4) is the same but the geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63 On booting it hangs at: F1FreeBSD Boot: F1 I copied the MBR with 'boot0cfg -B -