Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:35:57 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Migrating freebsd to a larger partition? Message-ID: <190480000.984879357@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I have a machine which originally had 3 partitions: 1 8MB, linux /boot 2 2GB, unused 3 6.75GB, extended (linux /, swap, etc.) I installed FreeBSD in partition 2 and migrated files and configuration from the linux installation. Now I want to change the Linux installation into a FreeBSD installation, and then free up partition 2 again. I deleted the extended partition (slice) from /stand/sysinstall and created a single slice, then created FreeBSD partitions within it, newfs'ed them, and copied the entire installation over filesystem by filesystem: da0s3a new / da0s3b new swap da0s3f new /usr (long story) da0s3g 100MB (reserved for Arla cache) The MBR boot loader offers to boot it (F3 - FreeBSD), but initially got a read error on attempting to boot; I tracked this down to garbage in the CHS part of the MBR partition table (left over from Linux fdisk), and redid it with FreeBSD fdisk. Now the MBR boot loader still offers to boot from the slice but simply beeps when I try. Is there some better/correct way to do this? (NB: the original is still there, I can nuke da0s3 entirely and start over if needed.) (Please respond directly: I will try to track this from the web archive but I already get too much mail to subscribe to -questions directly....) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?190480000.984879357>