On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:37 AM, admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, everyone. This is the problem: our SCSI disk with FreeBSD 4.8 on it > has been failing recently, so I copied its root partition to a fresh IDE > disk with cp -pR and tried to boot from that. Unfortunately, loader gives me > this: > can't load 'kernel' > can't load 'kernel.old' > and offers prompt. > I tried almost any combination of the loader command (like > 0:ad0(0,a)/boot/loader) but still the same. The kernels are right there: > /kernel and /kernel.old. Can't the root partition be copied this way? Should > their location on disk be hardcoded somewhere? Please help me with > bootblocks etc. as I'm desperately running out of time.
Short of using dump/restore, you should append the -p flag to `cp', because it preserves permissions. Follow the advice posted by RW, however. -- Glen Barber "If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." --Scott Adams _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"