Personally id stay away from dd. Create the partitions and file systems
manually, and install the boot loader, then rsync the data across. It will
be a lot faster in most cases, as unlike dd you wont be copying unused
space. Something like this should do the job
Rsync -aPH --exclude=/mnt/** / /mnt
I'm assuming you weren't migrating due to a bad disk
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Sent: 23 June 2009 05:55
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Subject: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot
I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to another -
essentially the same size. The disk device name (ad4) is the same but the
geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63
On booting it hangs at:
F1 FreeBSD
Boot: F1
I copied the MBR with 'boot0cfg -B -opacket ad4' just to be sure but no joy.
fbsd fdisk reports start 63, with CHS beg: 0/1/1 end: 1023/15/63.
Any help on direction to solve this?
Thanks.
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Jim Flowers <
jflowers@...>
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