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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Alexandre D." <alexandre.delay@free.fr>
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Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Migrate primary disk (duplicate)
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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?