Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:08:58 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jflowers@ezo.net Subject: Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot Message-ID: <200906231609.05810.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20090623032742.M54551@ezo.net> References: <20090623032742.M54551@ezo.net>
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--nextPart2728039.FyeAXod2hX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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: > > F1 FreeBSD > Boot: F1 > > I copied the MBR with 'boot0cfg -B -opacket ad4' just to be sure but > no joy. fbsd fdisk reports start 63, with CHS beg: 0/1/1 end: > 1023/15/63. > > Any help on direction to solve this? I would have thought that boot0cfg would DTRT. You could also try running fdisk -BI on your new disk to reinit the MBR,=20 then running boot0cfg on it. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2728039.FyeAXod2hX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKQHiJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAnFbAJ0Q49xua+67tZvlceU0Jg2SaXgMQgCdHDLJ BzI68tRvKNfZrjge81Z3mPk= =ToFx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2728039.FyeAXod2hX--
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