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 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Flowers Sent: 23 June 2009 05:55 To: [email protected] 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. -- Jim Flowers <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
