From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 21 21:51:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au (swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au [130.95.208.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7582914F64 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peters@ee.uwa.edu.au) Received: from eeserver.ee.uwa.edu.au (eeserver.ee.uwa.edu.au [130.95.208.9]) by swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11322 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:51:42 +0800 (WST) Received: from marshall (marshall.ee.uwa.edu.au [130.95.208.11]) by eeserver.ee.uwa.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA11529 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:51:41 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990722125257.00975bd0@pop.ee.uwa.edu.au> X-Sender: peters@pop.ee.uwa.edu.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:52:57 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Peter Soumanis Subject: Problem moving boot disk to SCSI Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Ive got a FreeBSD 2.x system whose IDE disk is failing, and I wish to create a new root partition on a SCSI disk. the /stand/sysinstall utility, disklabel, newboot, fdisk commands have all proven futile - at the BootEasy prompt I still get the F? when you hit F1. (and yes I've read the FAQ and other docs) I've checked out the geometry of the disk and while FDISK reports a different c/h/s than the /tools/pfdisk.exe util, the FreeBSD disklabel and FDISK figures check out ok. The root partition is under cylinder 1024 on 1:sd(0,a)and i used dump/restore to move the filesystem across from the IDE disk Booting from the BootManager on the IDE disk and pointing to the SCSI disk /kernel works ok, however all my efforts to boot solely from the SCSI have been in vain. I dont think the boot blocks are getting written to the disk using disklabel -B, the /boot.help and /boot.config files dont appear to be read. Has anyone come across this before ? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Peter ---------------------- Peter Soumanis Computer Systems Officer Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, UWA NEDLANDS WA 6907 Australia Ph: (08) 9380-3110 Fax:(08) 9380-1065 Email: peters@ee.uwa.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message