From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Sep 7 06:28:03 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3027E0A851 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 06:28:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@cretaforce.gr) Received: from smtp2.cretaforce.gr (smtp2.cretaforce.gr [88.99.184.38]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.cretaforce.gr", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0CF7976116 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 06:28:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@cretaforce.gr) Received: from server1.cretaforce.gr (server1.cretaforce.gr [138.201.248.69]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.cretaforce.gr", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA" (not verified)) by smtp2.cretaforce.gr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8884140853 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:21:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.2.3] (athedsl-279532.home.otenet.gr [85.73.139.138]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: chris@cretaforce.gr) by server1.cretaforce.gr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A4B6F2734A for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:21:32 +0300 (EEST) From: Christos Chatzaras Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: problem booting from 2nd drive Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:21:34 +0300 References: <4B828DE3-C784-45A9-A01B-F944DAFE1601@cretaforce.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 06:28:03 -0000 I use dump to take the backup from another server, then boot with mfsbsd = and run: gpart destroy -F ada0 gpart destroy -F ada1 gpart create -s gpt ada0 gpart add -b 40 -s 472 -t freebsd-boot ada0 gpart add -s 4G -t freebsd-ufs ada0 gpart add -s 64G -t freebsd-swap ada0 gpart add -s 16G -t freebsd-ufs ada0 gpart add -s 64G -t freebsd-ufs ada0 gpart add -s 16G -t freebsd-ufs ada0 gpart add -s 512G -t freebsd-ufs ada0 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada0 newfs -S 4096 -f 4096 -b 32768 ada0p2 newfs -S 4096 -f 4096 -b 32768 -U ada0p4 newfs -S 4096 -f 4096 -b 32768 -U ada0p5 newfs -S 4096 -f 4096 -b 32768 -U ada0p6 newfs -S 4096 -f 4096 -b 32768 -U ada0p7 newfs -S 4096 -f 4096 -b 32768 -U ada0p8 mount /dev/ada0p2 /mnt cd /mnt mkdir var tmp usr home home2 mount /dev/ada0p4 /mnt/tmp mount /dev/ada0p5 /mnt/var mount /dev/ada0p6 /mnt/usr mount /dev/ada0p7 /mnt/home mount /dev/ada0p8 /mnt/home2 cd /mnt/home2 fetch http://xxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx/FreeBSD-11.1-p1-20170905.tar.gz tar xf FreeBSD-11.1-p1-20170905.tar.gz rm FreeBSD-11.1-p1-20170905.tar.gz mv FreeBSD-11.1-p1-20170905 dump cd /mnt/tmp && restore -r -f /mnt/home2/dump/tmp.dump && rm = restoresymtable cd /mnt/usr && restore -r -f /mnt/home2/dump/usr.dump && rm = restoresymtable cd /mnt/var && restore -r -f /mnt/home2/dump/var.dump && rm = restoresymtable cd /mnt/home && restore -r -f /mnt/home2/dump/home.dump && rm = restoresymtable cd /mnt && restore -r -f /mnt/home2/dump/root.dump && rm restoresymtable cd gpart bootcode -b /mnt/boot/pmbr -p /mnt/boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 umount /mnt/tmp umount /mnt/var umount /mnt/usr umount /mnt/home umount /mnt/home2 umount /mnt gmirror label -vb load gm0p2 /dev/ada0p2 gmirror label -vb load gm0p3 /dev/ada0p3 gmirror label -vb load gm0p4 /dev/ada0p4 gmirror label -vb load gm0p5 /dev/ada0p5 gmirror label -vb load gm0p6 /dev/ada0p6 gmirror label -vb load gm0p7 /dev/ada0p7 gmirror label -vb load gm0p8 /dev/ada0p8 shutdown -r now ---- Then the server come back online and run: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=3D17 gpart backup ada0 | gpart restore -F ada1 gmirror insert gm0p2 /dev/ada1p2 gmirror insert gm0p3 /dev/ada1p3 gmirror insert gm0p4 /dev/ada1p4 gmirror insert gm0p5 /dev/ada1p5 gmirror insert gm0p6 /dev/ada1p6 gmirror insert gm0p7 /dev/ada1p7 gmirror insert gm0p8 /dev/ada1p8 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada1 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0 shutdown -r now ----- ada0 and ada1 are the same models and have the same bootcode. BIOS has default settings, booting from UEFI, then Network boot, then = USB disk, then hard disks. If I don't run "gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada1" = and the disk boot priority is ada1 first and then ada0 it boots. If I = write the bootcode to ada1 then the problem exist.=