Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:18:02 +0200 From: "C.M. Burns" <montiburns@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLVED] Migrate harddisk with FreeBSD into new machine Message-ID: <48A95A6A.8010605@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080814135612.025a8730@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <48A478C5.3030002@googlemail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080814135612.025a8730@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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> At 01:26 PM 8/14/2008, C.M. Burns wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have a problem. A faulty machine was running freeBSD with a two >> harddisk software raid. >> now these two disks should be put into a new machine, but of course >> it won't boot because it is new hardware. >> Kernel just reports: cannot mount root device from /dev/mirror/gm0s1a >> (or sth like this). >> >> question is now, how can i add the correct driver into the initial >> ramdisk (if there is such a thing on bsd) so the machine finds the >> two drives? >> second question: how can i afterwards remove the software mirror and >> only use one harddisk from that moment on? >> >> any help is very welcom, as i have no idea about bsd. i am a linux guy ;) >> >> thanks! > > problem solved. used a freebsd 7.0 CD to upgrade the kernel. this made the scsi disks available to the system. after that i used the livefs CD and removed the geom_mirror from loader.conf and set the root device to da0s1a. et voila, everything works! thanks for your help!
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