Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 05:15:28 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD Message-ID: <20060405191528.GN699@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200604051453.57372.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20060328.210412.18287651.imp@bsdimp.com> <HCEOIFALKKLBLJPENPNOGENDCAAA.khaled@ipbill.com> <20060404104031.GI683@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200604051453.57372.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 2006-Apr-05 14:53:55 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> boot2 is located in the (I think) sectors 1-15 of partition a. > >Actually, boot1 + boot2 occupy sectors 0,2-15 of the bootable slice (the >a partition starts at the start of the slice to be confusing) with the >actual disklabel table in sector 1 of the slice. The bit that threw me was that boot2 is 15 sectors long and ends in sector 15. I gather it has a copy of boot1 embedded in it. -- Peter Jeremy
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