System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication
Eric Anderson
anderson at freebsd.org
Mon May 14 12:32:05 UTC 2007
On 05/13/07 22:33, David Cramblett wrote:
> My FreeBSD 5.2.1 server had a 4.5 GB HDD. I decided to upgrade it with
> a larger drive. I installed a new drive on the second IDE channel which
> made it ad2, of course, my original drive was ad0. I created a
> partition, boot loader and matching slices on the new drive. Then I
> copied the old drive to the new drive using tar. Once finished, I
> removed the original drive and installed the new one on the primary
> channel. When I booted up everything appeared normal, but when the
> system starts to mount "/" it gives no error or warning and just drops
> to a "Manual mount root specification" prompt. If I type "ufs:ad0s1a"
> it boots up and everything is perfect. This is the same slice "/" was
> on the old drive as well.
>
>
> I have tried the following with no success:
>
> Checked /etc/fstab
>
> boot0cfg -v -B ad0
>
> bsdlabel -B ad0s1
>
> tried booting from a cd, going into post install config, fdisk, and set
> the partition as bootable, it already was.
>
> Since upgrading the hard disk, I have upgraded the system to 5.5 and
> then to 6.2. This system has been working great for over a week now,
> just have this boot problem.
>
>
> --------------
>
> Here is my fstab:
>
> /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
>
> --------------
>
> Output from bsdlabel
> # bsdlabel ad0s1
>
> # /dev/ad0s1:
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
> a: 585018626 1048576 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
> b: 1048576 0 swap
> c: 586067202 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
> don't edit
Could it be because your root partition is not at offset 0?
Eric
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