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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:50:15 -0500
From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca>
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Subject: Re: tar FBSD disk clone
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> I have found multiple articles on the web regarding ways to 'clone' ones
> FreeBSD disk.
> 
> I opted for the tar method, so I could cut pieces out I did not want
> before cloning.
> 
> When all was said and done, I manually fdisk'ed the new drive, labelled
> it, and mounted it into the existing FS. I then:

[...]

> Upon reboot, I get:
> 
> Invalid Partition
> Invalid Partition
> No /boot/loader

Read the disklabel(8) man page, specifically "Installing bootstraps". I
think you need to "disklabel -B ad0s1" (use the appropriate disk device
and slice).

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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