Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 08:51:17 +0100 From: Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Disk failure Message-ID: <41679875.7000503@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041009135932.A9489@odyssey.apana.org.au> References: <20041009060531.D78165@odyssey.apana.org.au> <1d54d5440410082002a847a8f@mail.gmail.com> <20041009135932.A9489@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Dean Hollister wrote: > Yep, the kernel reports it cannot read a couple sectors at bootup. > > Is it just a case of fdisk'ing/label'ing the new drive with a standard > MBR, setting up the filesystems and copying to them. Then the new > drive should just boot normally? Pretty much, i've done it a few times and never had a problem, tis also a good time to make any changes to your partiton structure :) Remember to make any changes to the fstab that might need doing like moved partitions or differing device names! -------------------- Mike Woods IT Technician
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