From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 7:34:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E4AB37B5D0 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:34:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08811; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:34:27 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003241534.HAA08811@ptavv.es.net> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to boot from wd1s1a In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:37:03 +0200." <20000324043703.D303@hades.hell.gr> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 07:34:27 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 04:37:03 +0200 > From: Giorgos Keramidas > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:39:15AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I recently added a second HD to my system and attempted to clone my > > original disk. I used pax and cloned /usr and /. Both appear to > > correct. The partition size and location for the root partitions on > > each drive look to be identical. > > > > I then edited the fstab on the new drive to mount /usr and /var from > > the new drive and tried to boot it. The boot manager prompted me with: > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Disk 1 > > > > I entered F5 and was prompted with > > F1 FreeBSD > > F5 Disk0 > > > > I enter F1 and the system resets immediately and I start from > > scratch. I mean resets to where it would be if I power cycled the > > box. BIOS restarts. > > Is the partition of the second disk active? > > I'm not sure if the boot loader requires this, but it seemed to fix my > problems when I did a similar disk-cloning for a friend of mine. Thanks for the suggestion. Both partitions are marked ACTIVE and are (as far as I can tell) identical except for size. This is based on the output of fdisk /dev/rwd[01], fdisk /dev/rwd[01]s1 and /dev/rwd[01]s1a. Since wd1 is a much fast drive with a larger cache, I'd really like to make it my boot disk. Maybe I'll try swapping master/slave and see if the disk will boot as wd0. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message