dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Any help on direction to solve this?
>
> try fdisk -B /dev/ad0
>
> but even better next time don't make slices, only disklabel. It just
> make life simpler. I still don't understand why sysinstall by default
> create them. It should be only used when windoze has to be run from
> the same disk

There are plenty of BIOSen which will puke on a dangerously dedicated 
disk.

Next time he should partition, label & newfs the disk, then copy it over 
with dump | store.

Unless the disk is chock full it will be significantly faster.
 

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