From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 3 16:28:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.eds.com (ns5.eds.com [203.17.185.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C3237B403 for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (nnsy-3.eds.com [192.168.1.1]) by ns5.eds.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f83NSgV03764 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:28:42 +1000 (EST) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f83NSeJ03482 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:28:40 +1000 (EST) Received: from ausym000.exau01.exch.eds.com ([134.251.177.117]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f83NSdM03473 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:28:39 +1000 (EST) Received: by AUSYM000 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:28:21 +1000 Message-ID: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC09A8@AUSYM103> From: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: can't dd blocksize=446 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:29:08 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi all, i installed 4.3 recently after running 2.2.6 for ages - but now i've got a >8Gb hd :) and i wanted to make use of it. in the past when i've copied my installation to a second hd for backup i've been able to copy the bootloader (?) from one to another with 'dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=446 count=1' but now dd reports ( i think ) "invalid argument" - it only allows bs=512. is this some sort of clean up of dd to make it work to spec? how do i get the behaviour i'm after? or what is the proper way to just install the normal freebsd type bootloader ( the F1,F2,F3,F4,F5 one). i tried 'fdisk -B' but booting came up with "missing operating system". i guess i could just try dd'ing the 512 bytes and then fdisk to put the pn table back - would that work? however i'd still like to be able to separately backup my bootloader and partition map into different files. any thoughts and directions are welcome. thanx, siegfried. siegfried pietralla ( siegfried.pietralla@eds.com ) ph: +61 3 9675 3234 fax: +61 3 9675 3440 mob: +61 4 0481 6140 location: 15th floor 2-26 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Vic, 3000 mail: Siegfried Pietralla 15/2, Colonial Account, EDS Australia, 436 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Vic, 3004 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message