Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:20:31 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Jan Pfeifer <janpf@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to make a hd bootable Message-ID: <15098.5903.17572.979355@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <120763852@toto.iv>
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Jan Pfeifer <janpf@yahoo-inc.com> types: > 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 ... Please insert newlines into your mail every 70 characters or so - it makes reading it saner for mail agents that obey the RFCs. Anyway, you can install either a standard MBR with fdisk, or a boot manager with boot0cfg. See the man pages for those two commands for details. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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