From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 15 18:49:47 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 3D60D1065679 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:49:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af.gourmet@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156338FC08 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:49:46 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Received: from [192.168.0.51] ([96.21.103.185]) by VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 3 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KRK004KMKAYS360@VL-MO-MR005.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:49:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4AD76ECB.7080809@videotron.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:49:47 -0400 From: PJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) To: Polytropon References: <4AD74198.9010301@videotron.ca> <20091015203922.d98bc249.freebsd@edvax.de> In-reply-to: <20091015203922.d98bc249.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from wrong disk 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 18:49:47 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:29 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > >> The /etc/fstab from ad12 will point at ad12. After restoring on ad4, >> did you edit fstab to now have ad4 entries? >> > > Ha! Excellent point; I missed to see this obvious thing. > Next to booting, the /etc/fstab mechanism is very important > to have a look at when cloning disks that will have a > different "signature" in the target than in the source. > > > AHA! Now, we're getting somewhere... cut's the workload. ;-) I'll try it ASAP.