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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 18:24:37 -0300
From:      Jan Pfeifer <janpf@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   how to make a hd bootable
Message-ID:  <20010509182437.19dd28e5.janpf@yahoo-inc.com>

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Hi,

i'm having physical problems with an hd, so i decided to copy its contents to a new hd and, after that, simply swap the hds. 

The new hd is bigger, so I installed it in /dev/ad1, repartitioned it, copied all the contents from /dev/ad0 to /dev/ad1 (with gcp --archive to preserve everything).  And what i want to do next is to take out the old hd, install the new one in /dev/ad0 and be happy :)

the problem is that the new hd is still not bootable. How do i do this, while it is installed in /dev/hda1 ? BTW, I don't have any windows partition/dos disk ... But I have a bootable 4.1 FreeBSD CD, if necessary ...

tks for any help

:-)

jan

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