replacing disk
Hi I am replacing an IDE disk (ad0) with a SATA disk (ad4) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: replacing disk
Hi, On Sunday 04 March 2012 08:01:33 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: I am replacing an IDE disk (ad0) with a SATA disk (ad4) what did you want to tell us? If you still have the old one, copy the data over. Of course, you need a kernel which can use SATA. fstab, maybe rc.conf should be adapted. What did I miss? Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: replacing disk
On Saturday 03 March 2012 18:01:33 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: Hi I am replacing an IDE disk (ad0) with a SATA disk (ad4) Sorry, I send it and I even notice In the disk I have 3 OS (FreeDOS, XP and FreeBSD) I use PartitionWizard to create the 3 slice in the new disk (ad4) I use ghost.exe (2003 version) to pass FreeDOS and XP to the new slices in ad4 I boot in FreeBSD (in ad0) and with sysinstall, create the partitions in ad4 and using the next commands, I pass the info in my 4 partiotios (/ /tmp /var /usr) newfs /dev/ad4s3a mount /dev/ad4s3a /mnt cd /mnt dump 0af - / | restore rf - I modify /mnt/etc/fstab to reflect ad4 as the only disk I turn off the PC, remove ad0 disk and turn on the PC, but FreeBSD do not boot I forgot to mention taht I had activated the 3rd slice of the disk, if I activate the 1st slice, FreeDOS boot So I reconect ad0 and boot FreeBSD (from ad0) and use the next command bsdlabel -B /dev/ad4s3 But do not work either. Do I really need to reinstall the OS on the new disk ad4 and tranfer my info with the commands as described in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: replacing disk
Hi, On Sunday 04 March 2012 08:47:39 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: On Saturday 03 March 2012 18:01:33 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: In the disk I have 3 OS (FreeDOS, XP and FreeBSD) I never used any other operating system on a machine with FreeBSD. So, my comments could be off. I use PartitionWizard to create the 3 slice in the new disk (ad4) Should work. I use ghost.exe (2003 version) to pass FreeDOS and XP to the new slices in ad4 Should also have worked. I boot in FreeBSD (in ad0) and with sysinstall, create the partitions in ad4 and using the next commands, I pass the info in my 4 partiotios (/ /tmp /var /usr) Ok, I have had once a problem with doing this too. I never found out why. Can you do this by hand from your running FreeBSD installation? newfs /dev/ad4s3a mount /dev/ad4s3a /mnt cd /mnt dump 0af - / | restore rf - I do not see when you wrote the MBR with bootable code. bsdlabel -B will do the job. Erich I modify /mnt/etc/fstab to reflect ad4 as the only disk I turn off the PC, remove ad0 disk and turn on the PC, but FreeBSD do not boot I forgot to mention taht I had activated the 3rd slice of the disk, if I activate the 1st slice, FreeDOS boot So I reconect ad0 and boot FreeBSD (from ad0) and use the next command bsdlabel -B /dev/ad4s3 Ok, you did it. One other thing. I used either dd when copying the disk. Most of the time, I even use rsync. It takes forever but I can continue my normal work. But do not work either. Do I really need to reinstall the OS on the new disk ad4 and tranfer my info with the commands as described in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NEW-HUGE-DISK This works always but copying properly the old disk must also work. One question again. Does your kernel support SATA? If not, it will not work. If it is a GENERIC kernel, it does. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: replacing disk
On Saturday 03 March 2012 20:55:30 Erich Dollansky wrote: One question again. Does your kernel support SATA? If not, it will not work. If it is a GENERIC kernel, it does. Erich Yes, it is the GENERIC Does /boot/boot1 should be different in ad0 and ad4? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
