From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 15:48:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FD716A400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:48:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from annkok2001@yahoo.com) Received: from web53303.mail.yahoo.com (web53303.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.49.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F17413C4A5 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:48:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from annkok2001@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 96770 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jan 2007 15:48:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=yDAYk5eaXalrn4Cy0oH5SLpfXgmFFYV15oh72HLn6cDtHFx7x+hzngzf2Jqb5eHeic5JrUI0lEtEeAhwQ85CttNKXUiz/1kzBe95ghxw04gEhwCm0juDAOyZ0rWo/rIsJIdBXu32XFDOZftLPQeMn+/7Eyj8PyN32vR5tyCX5so=; X-YMail-OSG: dVX5SxIVM1lGJZV.EM8Jo.eoauBi0r1Q8y1K6WLML6INwXxZcnhonjO1_m5kimt7m8rGzLFl2UGmXioG1UL965zdNuAB5bUvxPffU5s_671ULDtEpe9wfQkVYyIgFYbopFBUiDBGS920VTk- Received: from [66.49.254.13] by web53303.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:48:45 PST Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:48:45 -0800 (PST) From: ann kok To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <561554.90532.qm@web53303.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: error boot up from clone drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:48:46 -0000 Hi I am trying to test the clone harddrive to boot up the system. I got an error init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/tty.. but I check the clone harddive. the file is there /usr/libexec/getty and /dev/tty. i am using the following to copy the production drive to clone drive 1/ add the secondary ad2 (clone) in the computer 2/ fdisk and parition as same as the primary drive (ad0) 3/ newfs and mount ad2 eg: /usr1 /var1 .... 4/ using tar command to copy file from /var/ to /var1 eg: tar cf - var | ( cd var1; tar xvfBp - ) 5/ shutdown the computer 6/ unplug ad0 and plug the IDE1 to IDE0 7/ boot up Thank you for your help ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited