From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 17 18:43:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6CA337B719 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:43:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu (d6venm@PYANFAR.REM.CMU.EDU [128.2.87.225]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f2I2gmr14559; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:42:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:40:44 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating freebsd to a larger partition? Message-ID: <210580000.984883244@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200103180227.f2I2Rbe58809@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, March 17, 2001 20:27:37 -0600, David Kelly wrote: +----- | By any chance is there an issue with your MB BIOS and (presumably ATA) | drives greater than 2G? +--->8 I think I mentioned da0s3... it's SCSI and there should be no such issues. | Copied? With cp? dump(8) piped into restore(8) does a better job with | devices, links, and maintaining file flags. +--->8 cp -R for /usr, find|cpio -p for /, then did spot-checks. Everything appears to be correct; and the failure is happening well before that point, as it's apparently not even loading boot0. (I did manually disklabel -B da0s3; no effect.) | You really want to free up the 2G partition? How about putting the whole +--->8 It was originally going to be a "just in case I need it" Windows installation, but then I needed it to migrate from linux to freebsd. When I'm done I want to put it back for Windows. (Don't mention vmware; this is a P200, vmware just plain sucks on it.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message