From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 13 14: 7:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3ACB37B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981A043E42 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:07:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lomifeh@earthlink.net) Received: from bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net (bgp586692bgs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.202.147]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.4 (built Aug 5 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H2E005C9AO2ZY@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:07:13 -0400 From: Lawrence Sica Subject: Re: Cloning drives and FreeBSD In-reply-to: <3D823C54.2040600@centtech.com> To: Eric Anderson Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 03:28 PM, Eric Anderson wrote: > Lawrence Sica wrote: >> On Friday, September 13, 2002, at 10:38 AM, Eric Anderson wrote: >>> Ok, so I got a new hard drive (bigger of course) for my notebook >>> harddrive. I thought it would be swift to clone (using Ghost) my >>> smaller hd to my larger drive. >>> >>> This is where I am stuck.. >>> >>> My bigger drive won't boot anymore - evidently the drive mappings >>> changed, and the boot manager doesn't know how to read it anymore. >>> How am I supposed to fix this? Anyone know any tricks? I realy >>> don't want to have to rebuild my whole setup. >>> >> What OS? You mentioned ghost so I am assuming its not freebsd.... > > Well, I have FreeBSD and Winblows eXtraPathetic on there, but I'm > running Ghost from a floppy.. I don't care what tool I use to do this > really, I just thought Ghost was the easiest.. basically, I just need > to get from point A (smaller hd) to point B (bigger one). > Does it boot anything now? XP for example? If using the freebsd bootmanager you could just reinstall it from cd if you have the install or fixit cd... --Larry > Ideas? > > Eric > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message