From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 14:23:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janpf.br.yahoo.com (janpf.br.yahoo.com [200.212.56.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65E0437B423 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 14:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from janpf@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from janpf.br.yahoo.com (localhost.br.yahoo.com [127.0.0.1]) by janpf.br.yahoo.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f49LObO71637 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 18:24:37 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from janpf@yahoo-inc.com) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:24:37 -0300 From: Jan Pfeifer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: how to make a hd bootable Message-Id: <20010509182437.19dd28e5.janpf@yahoo-inc.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.61 (GTK+ 1.2.8; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE; i386) Organization: Yahoo! Brazil Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message