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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing "cp -R /" to another
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:37:09 +0400
"admin" <admin@azuni.net> wrote:

> 
> 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 

You should use dump and restore to copy the root partition, see:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK