Hi,
I have added a second hard drive in my virtual machine, as my root
partition is full. My idea was to add a new disk to the system, then
migrate the root partition to the new disk.
What I did so far :
- In recovery, add the second hard drive, fdisk to initialize it, then
disklabel to add a
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:08:49AM +0200, Adrien wrote:
Hi,
I have added a second hard drive in my virtual machine, as my root
partition is full. My idea was to add a new disk to the system, then
migrate the root partition to the new disk.
What I did so far :
- In recovery, add the
Thanks.
I have mounted my new hard drive to /mnt.
Then I ran :
/usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd2
Telling me that /boot will be written at sector 64.
But I'm still booting with my old hdd :(
Tried to enter boot hd1k:/bsd at boot prompt but it's telling me that no
such
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:06:27PM +0200, Adrien wrote:
Thanks.
I have mounted my new hard drive to /mnt.
You don't mount hard drives, you mount partititons.
Tell us exactly what you did and show command output of fdisk and disklabel.
Without that info, we can only guess.
-Otto
OK, so :
1. Added new hdd within my virtual machine.
2. Started virtual machine, initialized the disk with fdisk :
root@bsd:~# fdisk -i sd2
Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
Writing MBR at offset 0.
3. Added new slice with Disklabel
root@bsd:~# disklabel -E sd2
Label
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Adrien wrote:
OK, so :
1. Added new hdd within my virtual machine.
2. Started virtual machine, initialized the disk with fdisk :
root@bsd:~# fdisk -i sd2
Do you wish to write new MBR and partition table? [n] y
Writing MBR at offset 0.
3.
I'm really ashamed about that, I told it the wrong diskMy bad
All is working correctly now, a big thanks for your hints.
Here the final steps I did, for anyone else who might be interested :
- I forgot to edit my /etc/fstab before rebooting. So my system was mounted
as read-only,
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