Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:08:47 +0100 (BST) From: "K.J.Koster" <kjk1@ukc.ac.uk> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retry: problems moving root (long rant) Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970730120051.29769A-100000@kestrel.ukc.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.970730165235.21531B-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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> [snip]
> > Sorry to make this such a long story, I hope you found it entertaining. I
> > am left with a limping system, so I hope that you could point me at a
> > manual page I missed, or a feature of fdisk or disklabel that I missed.
>
> I'm no real guru, but if I understand you correctly:
>
> 1. you've transferred /usr onto sd2 ok
> 2. you're attempting to move stuff from sd0 to sd1
>
> Why not:
>
> 1. boot up from sd0 (I'm assuming FreeBSD is still there)
> 2. mount sd2 (which has the copied /usr filesystem)
> 3. backup required stuff on sd0 to sd2
> 4. reboot to install from floppy
> 5. install the full system on sd1 and/or sd2 (without removing the
> existing fileysystem on sd2)
> 6. boot off sd1
> 7. restore the rest of the system from the backup on sd2
>
> This way no real hackery is required.
>
That is what I tried, but sysinstall gives me the dreaded `device not
configured' error. I managed to get the filesystems up and running on sd1,
the only problem is that I cannot boot from sd1. The root is there and I
can mount /var from it and swap on it, but the bootmanager does not allow
me to boot without hanging the system.
>
> [One major assumption made here is that sd0 has SCSI 0 and sd1 has
> SCSI 1, and that your SCSI card has allocated BIOS space for auto
> mapping to D:]
>
Ehhrm. Come again? I mean, could you elaborate on that?
In my system, sd0 is SCSI id 0 etc. I tried moving sd1 (SCSI id 1) to sd0
(SCSI id 0), but I get the same problem: bootmanager-->crash and burn
Groetjes,
Kees Jan
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What do you mean `compromise'. Am I wrong then?
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