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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:32:20 -0800
From:      "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Noah <admin2@enabled.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: backup drive bootabel
Message-ID:  <20031112223108.M65151@enabled.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031112182055.GC24384@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20031112154647.M33110@enabled.com> <3FB25926.2000109@rtl.org> <20031112171905.M63476@enabled.com> <20031112182055.GC24384@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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> i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one.  In this case
> should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and
> either remove the first drive or modify the jumpering on the disks to
> swap their order on the bus.  You will need to mark the FreeBSD slice
> bootable in the disk partition label by running:
> 
>     # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr -s 1 da1


okay this is the command I was Looking for but I am arriving at an error:

# boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr -s 1 da1
boot0cfg: /boot/mbr: unknown or incompatible boot code

I think the partitions are about the same so I am not clear why this is happening.


- Noah


> 
> So long as the slice tables and disklabels on da0 and da1 are pretty
> much the same, either disk should boot up smoothly.




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