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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:55:21 -0000
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nuno_Gon=E7alves?= <nuno@fccn.pt>
To:        "'Aryeh M. Friedman'" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Changing boot partition - ACCOMPLISHED, now INIT problem :(
Message-ID:  <000c01c84948$86d61870$1f2c88c1@corp.fccn.pt>
In-Reply-To: <4773AAD9.806@gmail.com>
References:  <00fe01c84884$93ba1d30$1f2c88c1@corp.fccn.pt> <4773AAD9.806@gmail.com>

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Hi all,
Thanks on all your hints; it helped me comprehending my problem.
I accomplished the restore of a wrecked machine only with a .tar backup =
from
it.

The recipe is a little tricky. I installed a minimum FreeBSD on a new
machine, during sysintall I created 2 slices (one ad1s1 to the minimum =
SO
and swap and another slice ad1s2 to restore the backup) I set the second
slice as bootable (option S in FDISK). Then I created the partitions on =
the
first slice and installed the minimum SO (ad1s1a and ad1s1b for swap). =
After
booting to it with F1 I created the new file system with newfs and =
mounted
in rw mode (ad1s2a). Restored the tar backup to it and changed the FSTAB =
to
the new reality (used the initial swap created on the minimum SO ad1s1b =
and
the new partition as / ad1s2a ). Rebooted and voila it was booting the =
old
FreeBSD SO.

Still after probing the hardware (CDROM, FXP0, etc ....) It showed me =
this
repeated error:

23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
.....
....

I though it was something related with the console, so I rebooted to the
initial SO with F1, mounted the partition o see /boot and renamed
boot.config
Did another reboot and booted to F2 but the problem persists.
Do you guys have any clue what might this be and how can I solve it? Is =
it
something related with kernel stuff?
I have access to the contents of it if I boot through the minimum SO =
(F1)=20

Thanks for helping this newbie
Best regards to you all

Nuno=20


-----Original Message-----
From: Aryeh M. Friedman [mailto:aryeh.friedman@gmail.com]=20
Sent: quinta-feira, 27 de Dezembro de 2007 13:39
To: Nuno Gon=E7alves
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Changing boot partition

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Nuno Gon=E7alves wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>=20
>
> I Have a FreeBSD booting ok. It?s FSTAB is like this:
>
> #Device        MountPoint     FStype           Options
>
> /dev/ad1s1b   none             swap             sw
>
> /dev/ad1s1a   /                  ufs               rw
>
> /dev/acd0      /cdrom          cd9660          ro,noauto
>
> /dev/ad1s2d   /backup         ufs               rw
>
>=20
>
> When I boot the machine the boot manager shows me F1 and F2 to boot =
for.
>
> F1 brings me /dev/ad1s1a OK
>
> Still I want the machine to boot to /dev/ad1s2d
>
> This partition has a backup from another FreeBSD which I want to boot.
>
>=20
>
> To accomplish this, I need only to change FSTAB ?
>
> What changes should I do ? changing /dev/ad1s2d to /dev/ad1s2a ? I =
read
that
> a means boot root partition
>
>=20
>
> I tried to change FSTAB to
>
> #Device        MountPoint     FStype           Options
>
> /dev/ad1s1b   none             swap             sw
>
> #/dev/ad1s1a /                  ufs               rw
>
> /dev/acd0      /cdrom          cd9660          ro,noauto
>
> /dev/ad1s2a   /backup         ufs               rw
>
>=20
>
> And it hanged when I pressed F1 (could not mount the root partition :P =
)
>
>=20
>
> Could you guys give any hint ?
>
> Sorry about this questions but I am a newbie to FreeBSD

I forget the exact semantics but do a search for "installing freebsd
in a usb stick" on google the reason for referring to this site is it
shows how to duplicate what sysinstall does from the command line

- --
Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
Developer, not business, friendly
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