On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:57:00AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > ...and then the obligatory newfs on /dev/sd1X, cd into it, and restore. > Everything went fine. > > Then I rebooted with only the new disk plugged in, which gets > recognized fine as sd0 (now), the system boots ok, and I get > log in. > > BUT every command now gives > > floating point exception (core dumped) > > > Any ideas? Is there something else I need to do? > Please note that the system does not boot from > the new disk.
Perhaps you neglected to write MBR bootcode? (fdisk -u) Your description does not say you installed the 1st stage bootloader. This is a *required* step. See installboot(8).

