Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:37:09 +0400 From: "admin" <admin@azuni.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing "cp -R /" to another disk Message-ID: <200811291637.mATGb9iR048266@ns0.azuni.net>
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Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD 4.8 on it has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition to a fresh IDE disk with cp -pR and tried to boot from that. Unfortunately, loader gives me this: can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' and offers prompt. I tried almost any combination of the loader command (like 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader) but still the same. The kernels are right there: /kernel and /kernel.old. Can't the root partition be copied this way? Should their location on disk be hardcoded somewhere? Please help me with bootblocks etc. as I'm desperately running out of time.
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