Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:03:48 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Subject: Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot Message-ID: <200906231703.58948.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906230927390.55064@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20090623032742.M54551@ezo.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906230927390.55064@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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--nextPart1593119.zZLlcR250b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Any help on direction to solve this? > > try fdisk -B /dev/ad0 > > but even better next time don't make slices, only disklabel. It just > make life simpler. I still don't understand why sysinstall by default > create them. It should be only used when windoze has to be run from > the same disk There are plenty of BIOSen which will puke on a dangerously dedicated=20 disk. Next time he should partition, label & newfs the disk, then copy it over=20 with dump | store. Unless the disk is chock full it will be significantly faster. =20 =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 --nextPart1593119.zZLlcR250b 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) iD8DBQBKQIVm5ZPcIHs/zowRAl1bAJ9dhrJv7CkC1ABjpr8vrX3zjAKmnACeO6mj oeIxhnxf7og6MjyY9fK4VFE= =bGN7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1593119.zZLlcR250b--
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