Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-12-01 Thread admin
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:57:29 [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 You should use dump and restore to copy

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-11-30 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Sunday 30 November 2008 06:57:29 [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 You should use dump and restore to copy the root partition,

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-11-29 Thread RW
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:37:09 +0400 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 You should use dump and restore to copy the root

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-11-29 Thread Glen Barber
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

Re: FreeBSD 4.8: can't load kernel after doing cp -R / to another disk

2008-11-29 Thread admin
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 You should use dump and restore to copy the root partition, see: I'd done that before trying cp -pR, as outlined by rse@: