From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 24 22:11:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92037106566C for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:11:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AAE28FC0A for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:11:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so357754ewy.43 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:11:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:references:subject :date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-mailer:in-reply-to:x-mimeole:thread-index; bh=ipPCvtVY78Y8B+NSwNOT9m1chSgyE8Tb5sJmZ+u3ZYM=; b=oqAlWeZMfjSGhv2pSqGmD1wpaD+gyZScaqakcUj2gPJgv6zrUfzhVG19SyX5N1NSQr R+2KFMjZ9qcYKMxRMzCAKJr6z0eQMtOyXzoCnpMFivLszpZv+2/8sXl9lP9cJQj6M/O6 YiojKDW427c4Jt7P6BHpGhJRlGDZCD5hIa4nw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:references:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:in-reply-to :x-mimeole:thread-index; b=GDOSSGKPyoK9RA4Hu1bQfvteLfO3QYrpOB8yy8EVueoXJCucvTaiA8caB385ShlB8d gRjuAvpPiVxQcN1lcGMSXJSoAKj46sufKvzW6JNUqv7kZJUuSDwSKqVV5KEGZcsVQ7qW BZ+IMlEcleP/uG84Ib5nunxZsZ/Ky4L0x35GQ= Received: by 10.210.17.2 with SMTP id 2mr104256ebq.64.1245881483523; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LTPCSCOTT (astondb9.plus.com [84.92.30.161]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 26sm1486404ewy.11.2009.06.24.15.11.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:11:22 -0700 (PDT) From: krad To: , References: <20090623032742.M54551@ezo.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:11:21 +0100 Message-ID: <2C153FCDAC3B43BDADDD1B28CED80036@uk.tiscali.intl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20090623032742.M54551@ezo.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Thread-Index: AcnzvpoDudfoGS8mSQaUk/nwDX4J3QBWXZ4g X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:39:20 +0000 Cc: Subject: RE: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:11:26 -0000 Personally id stay away from dd. Create the partitions and file systems manually, and install the boot loader, then rsync the data across. It will be a lot faster in most cases, as unlike dd you wont be copying unused space. Something like this should do the job Rsync -aPH --exclude=/mnt/** / /mnt I'm assuming you weren't migrating due to a bad disk -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jim Flowers Sent: 23 June 2009 05:55 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to another - essentially the same size. The disk device name (ad4) is the same but the geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63 On booting it hangs at: F1 FreeBSD Boot: F1 I copied the MBR with 'boot0cfg -B -opacket ad4' just to be sure but no joy. fbsd fdisk reports start 63, with CHS beg: 0/1/1 end: 1023/15/63. Any help on direction to solve this? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"