On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Jim Flowers wrote: > 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?
I would have thought that boot0cfg would DTRT. You could also try running fdisk -BI on your new disk to reinit the MBR, then running boot0cfg on it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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