dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Jim Flowers wrote:
> I have a remote server that was dd copied from one hard drive to
> another - essentially the same size.  The disk device name (ad4) is
> the same but the geometry for the new drive has a CHS of 969021/16/63
>
> On booting it hangs at:
>
> F1        FreeBSD
> Boot:     F1
>
> I copied the MBR with 'boot0cfg -B -opacket ad4' just to be sure but
> no joy. fbsd fdisk reports start 63, with CHS beg: 0/1/1 end:
> 1023/15/63.
>
> Any help on direction to solve this?

I would have thought that boot0cfg would DTRT.

You could also try running fdisk -BI on your new disk to reinit the MBR, 
then running boot0cfg on it.

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