Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-14 Thread Alex Jurkiewicz
2009/10/14 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com: My suggestion is to check the VM config and see if you can emulate an IDE ad(4) device instead of the possible SCSI da(4) device that vmware/virtualbox may setup.  I'm almost positive (not 100% because I don't have either one of those installed at the

Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/12/09, Alex Jurkiewicz a...@bluebottle.net.au wrote: 2009/10/13 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com: Is the virtual machine using SCSI emulation to boot, or is it using IDE? SCSI drives are da(4), IDE drives are ata(4) [aka ad(4)] The dump was taken from an ad0 device on physical hardware, and

Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-12 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/12/09, Alex Jurkiewicz a...@bluebottle.net.au wrote: Hi all, A little background: I'm writing a script that will allow me to restore(8) a standard FreeBSD partition to multiple machines. So far, I'm at the 'see if it works in principle' stage, and I'm finding something strange. My

Re: restore(8)ing new / -- boots on metal but not in a VM

2009-10-12 Thread Alex Jurkiewicz
2009/10/13 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com: Is the virtual machine using SCSI emulation to boot, or is it using IDE? SCSI drives are da(4), IDE drives are ata(4) [aka ad(4)] The dump was taken from an ad0 device on physical hardware, and I'm attempting to restore to the same, just on virtual