Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:33:53 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing "cp -R /" to another disk Message-ID: <20081129223353.04a0d9cf@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200811291637.mATGb9iR048266@ns0.azuni.net> References: <200811291637.mATGb9iR048266@ns0.azuni.net>
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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
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