From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 18:49:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7306E37B626 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 18:49:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp1.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.16]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA11308; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:47:56 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA01648; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:37:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:37:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Kevin Oberman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to boot from wd1s1a Message-ID: <20000324043703.D303@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <200003231839.KAA30343@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003231839.KAA30343@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:39:15AM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:39:15AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I recently added a second HD to my system and attempted to clone my > original disk. I used pax and cloned /usr and /. Both appear to > correct. The partition size and location for the root partitions on > each drive look to be identical. > > I then edited the fstab on the new drive to mount /usr and /var from > the new drive and tried to boot it. The boot manager prompted me with: > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Disk 1 > > I entered F5 and was prompted with > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Disk0 > > I enter F1 and the system resets immediately and I start from > scratch. I mean resets to where it would be if I power cycled the > box. BIOS restarts. Is the partition of the second disk active? I'm not sure if the boot loader requires this, but it seemed to fix my problems when I did a similar disk-cloning for a friend of mine. - Giorgos Keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message