From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 13 19:23:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DD637B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4895143E4A for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:23:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pg@eth1.com) Received: from pool-141-154-37-247.bos.east.verizon.net (HELO kjw98se) (kjerstes@141.154.37.247 with login) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Sep 2002 02:23:24 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <3D82C92A.000007.09919@kjw98se.ne.mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:29:14 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Content-Type: Text/Plain X-Mailer: IncrediMail 2001 (1750710) From: "Peter Gatsoulis" X-FID: FLAVOR00-NONE-0000-0000-000000000000 X-FVER: 2.0 X-CNT: ; Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 To: Subject: duped laptop disk NOT bootable Reply-To: "Peter Gatsoulis" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org any advice on the following just duped a laptop disk with dump|restore put it into new notebook i get invalid partition i get the 1st stage boot prompt with boot failure message and the expected default that failed 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader the duped drive has the FBSD slice as ad0s1e if i say at this point 0:ad(0,e)/boot/loader OR if i say; 0:ad(0,e)/kernel i can boot to my custom compiled kernel; also sometimes BUT NOT always i can boot with just saying; 0:ad(0,e) i have tried making a boot.config, then a boot.conf file with 0:ad(0 e)/boot/loader in there BUT it doesn't work, i still have to boot it manually by saying the exact same thing as above i've tried putting a reference in loader.conf to try to get the loader to reckognize boot.config by just specifying the file name /boot/config in loader.conf but maybe i don't have the right syntax even tried doing a disklabel -B /dev/ad0s1, i thought maybe there weren't any boot blocks, tried disklabel -w -B also tried editing the disklabel disklabel -e ad0 and tried changing the partition label from e to a but even as root the system wouldn't lemme write to the disk when editing i finished fresh out of ideas, anyone know how to do this so it boots by itself again? HOW/where DO I SPECIFY THAT ad0 s1e, is the right place to boot from with out doing this manually each and every time? i haven't tried doing anything w/ boot0cfg but i figure i'm past that point anyways if i get to where i'm now getting to.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message