Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:55:21 -0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nuno_Gon=E7alves?= <nuno@fccn.pt> To: "'Aryeh M. Friedman'" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Changing boot partition - ACCOMPLISHED, now INIT problem :( Message-ID: <000c01c84948$86d61870$1f2c88c1@corp.fccn.pt> In-Reply-To: <4773AAD9.806@gmail.com> References: <00fe01c84884$93ba1d30$1f2c88c1@corp.fccn.pt> <4773AAD9.806@gmail.com>
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Hi all, Thanks on all your hints; it helped me comprehending my problem. I accomplished the restore of a wrecked machine only with a .tar backup from it. The recipe is a little tricky. I installed a minimum FreeBSD on a new machine, during sysintall I created 2 slices (one ad1s1 to the minimum SO and swap and another slice ad1s2 to restore the backup) I set the second slice as bootable (option S in FDISK). Then I created the partitions on the first slice and installed the minimum SO (ad1s1a and ad1s1b for swap). After booting to it with F1 I created the new file system with newfs and mounted in rw mode (ad1s2a). Restored the tar backup to it and changed the FSTAB to the new reality (used the initial swap created on the minimum SO ad1s1b and the new partition as / ad1s2a ). Rebooted and voila it was booting the old FreeBSD SO. Still after probing the hardware (CDROM, FXP0, etc ....) It showed me this repeated error: 23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ... 23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ... 23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ... 23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ... 23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ... 23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ... ..... .... I though it was something related with the console, so I rebooted to the initial SO with F1, mounted the partition o see /boot and renamed boot.config Did another reboot and booted to F2 but the problem persists. Do you guys have any clue what might this be and how can I solve it? Is it something related with kernel stuff? I have access to the contents of it if I boot through the minimum SO (F1) Thanks for helping this newbie Best regards to you all Nuno -----Original Message----- From: Aryeh M. Friedman [mailto:aryeh.friedman@gmail.com] Sent: quinta-feira, 27 de Dezembro de 2007 13:39 To: Nuno Gonçalves Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing boot partition -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Gonçalves wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I Have a FreeBSD booting ok. It?s FSTAB is like this: > > #Device MountPoint FStype Options > > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw > > /dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw > > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > > /dev/ad1s2d /backup ufs rw > > > > When I boot the machine the boot manager shows me F1 and F2 to boot for. > > F1 brings me /dev/ad1s1a OK > > Still I want the machine to boot to /dev/ad1s2d > > This partition has a backup from another FreeBSD which I want to boot. > > > > To accomplish this, I need only to change FSTAB ? > > What changes should I do ? changing /dev/ad1s2d to /dev/ad1s2a ? I read that > a means boot root partition > > > > I tried to change FSTAB to > > #Device MountPoint FStype Options > > /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw > > #/dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw > > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto > > /dev/ad1s2a /backup ufs rw > > > > And it hanged when I pressed F1 (could not mount the root partition :P ) > > > > Could you guys give any hint ? > > Sorry about this questions but I am a newbie to FreeBSD I forget the exact semantics but do a search for "installing freebsd in a usb stick" on google the reason for referring to this site is it shows how to duplicate what sysinstall does from the command line - -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems http://www.flosoft-systems.com Developer, not business, friendly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHc6rZzIOMjAek4JIRAoevAJ0WZzlRNgLiZeMzgS7RV2SS96kEBgCfe9PI tsmEoCTLlXPqg/FWYSEcukc= =oamg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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