Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:41:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: alexandre.delay@free.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrate primary disk (duplicate) Message-ID: <20050801094151.GA16934@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <1122880808.42edcd280f5fd@imp6-q.free.fr> References: <1122880808.42edcd280f5fd@imp6-q.free.fr>
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On 2005-08-01 09:20, alexandre.delay@free.fr wrote: > Hi guys > > I saw a post on > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-October/023454.html > > I am actually trying to migrate from one disk to an other. > I need to write a script to do it with several computers. > > The thing is that it works perfectly when I use the fdisk's /stand/sysinstall > and mbr installation, but doesn't work if I use: > fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -I ad3 (or fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 -I ad3) Try two steps: fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad3 Then, of course, you need to create a disk label with bsdlabel too and make sure you newfs the partitions, etc.
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