Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:05:28 -0700 (PDT) From: c/o Peter Gatsoulis <kjerstes@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: duped laptop disk not bootable Message-ID: <20020824060528.73087.qmail@web9704.mail.yahoo.com>
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any advice on the following just duped a laptop disk with dump|restore put it into new notebook i get invalid partition i get the 1st stage boot prompt with boot failure message and the expected default that failed 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader the duped drive has the FBSD slice as ad0s1e if i say at this point 0:ad(0,e)/boot/loader OR if i say; 0:ad(0,e)/kernel i can boot to my custom compiled kernel sometimes BUT NOT always i can boot with just saying; 0:ad(0,e) i have tried making a boot.config, then a boot.conf file with 0:ad(0,e)/boot/loader in there doesn't work, i still have to boot it manually by saying the exact same thing as above i've tried putting a reference in loader.conf to try to get the loader to reckognize boot.config by just specifying the file name /boot/config in loader.conf but maybe i don't have the right syntax even tried doing a disklabel -B /dev/ad0s1, i thought maybe there weren't any boot blocks, tried disklabel -w -B also tried editing the disklabel disklabel -e ad0 and tried changing the partition label from e to a but even as root the system wouldn't lemme write to the disk when editing i finished fresh out of ideas, anyone know how to do this so it boots by itself again? HOW/where DO I SPECIFY THAT ad0 s1e, is the right place to boot from with out doing this manually each and every time? i haven't tried doing anything w/ boot0cfg but i figure i'm past that point anyways if i get to where i'm now getting to.. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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