Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:29:14 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: "Peter Gatsoulis" <pg@eth1.com> To: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: duped laptop disk NOT bootable Message-ID: <3D82C92A.000007.09919@kjw98se.ne.mediaone.net>
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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; also 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 BUT it 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.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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