System Drops to manual mount root prompt after HDD duplication

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

David Cramblett <david at functionalchaos.net> writes:
> 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.

What's in your /boot.config and /boot/loader.conf?

DES
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