From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 06:39:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAD810656AD for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:39:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D088FC1A for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:39:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n5N6d9Hd096261 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:09:10 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jflowers@ezo.net Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:08:58 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090623032742.M54551@ezo.net> In-Reply-To: <20090623032742.M54551@ezo.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2728039.FyeAXod2hX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906231609.05810.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.55 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Subject: Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:39:29 -0000 --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--