Re: Problem creating DR bootable disk

2006-04-29 Thread Ian Jefferson
Hmmm I'm probably making obvious suggestions but... I think I'd be inclined to do a fresh install of the same OS version on the target disk. See if that boots OK. If it does then something in your mirror tools is the issue. If it doesn't then it's a bootstrap problem. Re: boot manager I'

Re: Problem creating DR bootable disk

2006-04-29 Thread Joe Gross
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:08:36AM -0400, Ian Jefferson wrote: > > What happens when you pull the raid card? Same thing. > Choice of boot manager? Doesn't the -B option just install the standard boot manager? Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: Problem creating DR bootable disk

2006-04-29 Thread Ian Jefferson
I just moved my 6.0 Release from one slice to another. The procedure is similar. You could look at my response to expanding a partition, same idea. So relocating a copy of 6.0 (at least) works OK for booting. What happens when you pull the raid card? I'm guessing that bios is ignored pretty ea

Problem creating DR bootable disk

2006-04-28 Thread Joe Gross
I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0 with a generic kernel and an Asus A8V motherboard. I have three IDE disks in my system. Two are on a 3ware 7200 RAID card in a RAID1 configuration. This is currently used to boot. The third disk is intended to be a DR disk, with a nightly script to mount, sync, change