Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:59:18 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: Khaled Hussain <khaled@ipbill.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD Message-ID: <4432B3F6.3090504@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <HCEOIFALKKLBLJPENPNOAENECAAA.khaled@ipbill.com> References: <HCEOIFALKKLBLJPENPNOAENECAAA.khaled@ipbill.com>
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Khaled Hussain wrote: > Thanks for the clarification...at the moment I am trying to set a boot > manager on my disk but am unsure which slice to set as the default boot > selection when using the boot0cfg command. > > boot0cfg -Bv -s? ad2 > > disklabel -r ad0 (on a different bsd system) gives: > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 204800 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 12*) > b: 2104640 204800 swap # (Cyl. 12*- 143*) > c: 117258372 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - > 7298*) > e: 40960 2309440 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 143*- 146*) > f: 114907972 2350400 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 146*- > 7298*) > > > Am I correct in assuming that a: is slice 1, b: is slice 2, etc? No. The above is the label inside a single slice. a: is the first partition within that slice. Use fdisk to look at your slices. If you really are getting the above from /dev/ad2 rather than /dev/ad2sN where N is a number from 1 to 4, then it's in dedicated mode and the issue is moot, since there's no slice table.
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