Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:37:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to boot from wd1s1a Message-ID: <20000324043703.D303@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <200003231839.KAA30343@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:39:15AM -0800 References: <200003231839.KAA30343@ptavv.es.net>
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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
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