Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 21:31:46 +0000 (UTC) From: "Corey Brune" <brune@sdf.lonestar.org> To: cbraga@crotalus.com.br (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?=) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from a different HD Message-ID: <200105032131.f43LVkR12809@sdf.lonestar.org> In-Reply-To: <005801c0d40e$febffec0$02ffa8c0@terrificus> from "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?=" at May 03, 2001 05:23:53 PM
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Did you use dd to copy the data to the other disk or did you cp? From the description, it sounds like you used cp. Can you boot from the smaller disk and then try to dd to the raw device? Corey =?iso-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?= > > I have a freebsd server with two IDE hard drives: 2.5 GB and 13 GB (ad0 and > ad1). The whole system was installed on the 2.5 GB drive and the 13 GB was > used for file storage. Now, for a couple weeks I've been getting "HARD READ > ERROR"s on the smaller drive, so I've copied the whole system to the larger > drive. But I can't get the system to boot from that drive, I get stranded in > the following prompt: > > >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel > boot: > > And the boot loader won't find the kernel. Boot0cfg dies with errors such as > "filesystem in use" even when nothing but / is mounted. I have 4.0-STABLE. > Please help me boot the system. > > Thank you. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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