Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:06:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Alexandre D." <alexandre.delay@free.fr> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrate primary disk (duplicate) Message-ID: <20050801170619.GB767@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <MAEBLPAGHGPMOKCBICBNMEKKCHAA.alexandre.delay@free.fr> References: <xtslxt4r9w.lxt@mail.opusnet.com> <MAEBLPAGHGPMOKCBICBNMEKKCHAA.alexandre.delay@free.fr>
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On 2005-08-01 18:59, "Alexandre D." <alexandre.delay@free.fr> wrote:
> Here is the complete process I follow:
>
> sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${disk} bs=1k count=1
> fdisk -BI ${disk}
The dd/geom stuff shouldn't really be necessary, AFAIK.
> disklabel -B -w -r ${disk}s1 auto
> disklabel -R ${disk}s1 generique.disklabel
> newfs /dev/${disk}s1a
> newfs /dev/${disk}s1d
> mount /dev/${disk}s1a ./mnt
> cd ./mnt
> dump 0uafL - / | restore xf -
> cd ..
> umount ./mnt
> mount /dev/${disk}s1d ./mnt
> cd ./mnt
> dump 0uafL - /usr | restore xf -
> cd ..
> umount ./mnt
Hmmm, are you sure restore doesn't write files in their absolute
location?
Also, can you try running boot0cfg on the destination disk, as a final
step, before trying to boot from it?
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