Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 20:37:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <emulation@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Vritbox 4.3.12 and RELENG_6 guest ? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408052033070.63230@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <53E18A4C.2070100@sentex.net> References: <53E18A4C.2070100@sentex.net>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I have been trying to convert a FreeBSD 6 box to a vdi image without luck. > To do so, I did the following steps, but when I attach the .vdi file to the > VM I created, I dont get by the initial boot loader. > Has anyone done anything like this ? > > dd if=/dev/zero of=sz.dd bs=1024k count=20000 > mdconfig -t vnode -f sz.dd > > > gpart create -s MBR md0 > gpart add -t freebsd md0 > gpart set -a active -i 1 md0 > gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 md0 Multiboot a VM is a bit unusual. /boot/mbr is the ordinary bootcode. If the original machine multibooted, it would probably be better as multiple VMs. > gpart create -s BSD -n 20 md0s1 Bootcode is needed in the bsdlabel also: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_the_old_standard_mbr gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot md0s1
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