Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:32:20 -0800 From: "Noah" <admin2@enabled.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Noah <admin2@enabled.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup drive bootabel Message-ID: <20031112223108.M65151@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <20031112182055.GC24384@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20031112154647.M33110@enabled.com> <3FB25926.2000109@rtl.org> <20031112171905.M63476@enabled.com> <20031112182055.GC24384@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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> i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one. In this case > should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and > either remove the first drive or modify the jumpering on the disks to > swap their order on the bus. You will need to mark the FreeBSD slice > bootable in the disk partition label by running: > > # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr -s 1 da1 okay this is the command I was Looking for but I am arriving at an error: # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr -s 1 da1 boot0cfg: /boot/mbr: unknown or incompatible boot code I think the partitions are about the same so I am not clear why this is happening. - Noah > > So long as the slice tables and disklabels on da0 and da1 are pretty > much the same, either disk should boot up smoothly.
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