Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 18:47:39 -0700 From: Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez <mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replacing disk Message-ID: <201203031847.39512.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> In-Reply-To: <201203031801.34046.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx> References: <201203031801.34046.mapsware@prodigy.net.mx>
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On Saturday 03 March 2012 18:01:33 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > Hi > > I am replacing an IDE disk (ad0) with a SATA disk (ad4) Sorry, I send it and I even notice In the disk I have 3 OS (FreeDOS, XP and FreeBSD) I use PartitionWizard to create the 3 slice in the new disk (ad4) I use ghost.exe (2003 version) to pass FreeDOS and XP to the new slices in ad4 I boot in FreeBSD (in ad0) and with sysinstall, create the partitions in ad4 and using the next commands, I pass the info in my 4 partiotios (/ /tmp /var /usr) newfs /dev/ad4s3a mount /dev/ad4s3a /mnt cd /mnt dump 0af - / | restore rf - I modify /mnt/etc/fstab to reflect ad4 as the only disk I turn off the PC, remove ad0 disk and turn on the PC, but FreeBSD do not boot I forgot to mention taht I had activated the 3rd slice of the disk, if I activate the 1st slice, FreeDOS boot So I reconect ad0 and boot FreeBSD (from ad0) and use the next command bsdlabel -B /dev/ad4s3 But do not work either. Do I really need to reinstall the OS on the new disk ad4 and tranfer my info with the commands as described in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK
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