Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:52:57 From: Peter Soumanis <peters@ee.uwa.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem moving boot disk to SCSI Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990722125257.00975bd0@pop.ee.uwa.edu.au>
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Hi, Ive got a FreeBSD 2.x system whose IDE disk is failing, and I wish to create a new root partition on a SCSI disk. the /stand/sysinstall utility, disklabel, newboot, fdisk commands have all proven futile - at the BootEasy prompt I still get the F? when you hit F1. (and yes I've read the FAQ and other docs) I've checked out the geometry of the disk and while FDISK reports a different c/h/s than the /tools/pfdisk.exe util, the FreeBSD disklabel and FDISK figures check out ok. The root partition is under cylinder 1024 on 1:sd(0,a)and i used dump/restore to move the filesystem across from the IDE disk Booting from the BootManager on the IDE disk and pointing to the SCSI disk /kernel works ok, however all my efforts to boot solely from the SCSI have been in vain. I dont think the boot blocks are getting written to the disk using disklabel -B, the /boot.help and /boot.config files dont appear to be read. Has anyone come across this before ? Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Peter ---------------------- Peter Soumanis Computer Systems Officer Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, UWA NEDLANDS WA 6907 Australia Ph: (08) 9380-3110 Fax:(08) 9380-1065 Email: peters@ee.uwa.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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