From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 29 16:51:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A31819C for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 16:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: from mail5.networktest.com (mail5.networktest.com [204.109.60.142]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 775C411AD for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 16:51:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail5.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B1E39DC33 for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 09:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail5.networktest.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail5.networktest.com [127.0.0.1]) (maiad, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16519-09 for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 09:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tejay-2.local (cpe-75-82-83-187.socal.res.rr.com [75.82.83.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dnewman@networktest.com) by mail5.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B048B39DC25 for ; Fri, 29 May 2015 09:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <556898FB.1080704@networktest.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 09:51:07 -0700 From: David Newman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Missing boot loader References: <5522C5DE.1050005@networktest.com> <55687BE9.40803@networktest.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 16:51:10 -0000 On 5/29/15 8:46 AM, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2015, David Newman wrote: > >> On 4/6/15 9:28 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> >>> My solution is >>> http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/technotes/archives/2015/01/30/how-to_clone_a_freebsd_virtual_machine_on_vmware/index.html >>> >>> certainly not the best/fastest, but it works. >> >> Thanks for this. After following the clone instructions, restore appears >> to work, but the system comes up with a "Missing boot loader" error. >> >> This is perhaps because the next-to-last step from the live CD is: >> >> cd / >> mount -o rw /dev/da0p1 /mnt >> gpart bootcode -b /mnt/boot/pmbr -p /mnt/boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 >> >> And that returns "/dev/da0p1: Operation not permitted" even though da0p1 >> is the target system's root/boot partition. > > In this code, da0 is the source disk, where the bootcode files are read. > It is mounted on /mnt. So there are two reasons that gpart cannot write > bootcode to da0p1. First, it is mounted, and second, it is filesystem > partition, not a freebsd-boot partition. > > The target disk cannot be da0p1. Maybe it is a simple typo, and either > the second or third line was meant to be ada0 rather than da0. Thanks for your email. Backstory: This VM is a dump/restore clone of another machine that has no separate boot partition. Here's /etc/fstab from the source machine: /dev/ada0p2 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ada0p3 none swap sw 0 0 And on the new target VM: /dev/da0p1 / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/da0p2 none swap sw 0 0 I don't understand the bit about 'ada0', since 'gpart list' shows only da0 and two providers under it. The source machine has boot files in its root partition, under /boot. How can I get that working here? Thanks! dn