From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 02:09:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8AC1065672 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex.jurkiewicz@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f203.google.com (mail-qy0-f203.google.com [209.85.221.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44908FC19 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk42 with SMTP id 42so341042qyk.28 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:09:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z1O9p7N17hGxj05jgCleP6D7wYZqHsF6Km5vrbt3/VQ=; b=QheO3MPjxlv/g27ovm/5aTWISzWCkkoBkqbpiM1iHSrOhGp8ymt9PmsMXSuJZnY3SI 6wecvV/z0tnnFHt3kFnT90zUCYMFVdjWVdBv1QBeAC0VRjY97+vehhTYPsW8bd/zifUq 4EV/P20SZfPaxgSpMavrD6D03SvZAlZGN2z20= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=BxehnwqWWssF5ObLEu3HiFCMR5qlNYMCqUdaSTzZyAqXozoFnPBSOEoMAq59jgcxqC nr60m8Fqqrx0Mw3KWUs/ZFxtL6NawBMnXjjZL9Eu4mggzl2uzbzqfQMQxi2zjZLg0I7H W0VuI2b8nrryOL91xBPYDoOWtDYNhMDeWmycw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: alex.jurkiewicz@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.35.71 with SMTP id o7mr7698177qad.331.1255572581885; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:09:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <98ac902a0910120214m29d299b5o6aa58fdba45c9f95@mail.gmail.com> <98ac902a0910121745h204124ear51139091572676f3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:09:41 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: c06fa654e97b8faa Message-ID: <98ac902a0910141909j5a359940j7006eecb15fd05cd@mail.gmail.com> From: Alex Jurkiewicz To: Tim Judd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:09:43 -0000 2009/10/14 Tim Judd : > My suggestion is to check the VM config and see if you can emulate an > IDE ad(4) device instead of the possible SCSI da(4) device that > vmware/virtualbox may setup. =C2=A0I'm almost positive (not 100% because = I > don't have either one of those installed at the moment) that both > those products default to a SCSI device. Both are capable of emulating IDE, and both can offer something that FreeBSD uses the da driver for (SATA for Vbox, SCSI for Vmware). I've tested with both ad and da drives on both solutions. Creating a dump image fresh in a VM gives me a file I can restore from and boot successfully in VMs. I haven't tested physical machines yet -- if I can boot physical machines off this new dump file my problems are solved. If not... At this point it seems simplest to produce a few different versions of my dump image. Chances there's just something different in the first few sectors of the disk, but having a single dump image and multiple first sectors for the image seems more complex overall. Thanks for the help, AJ