dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

[krad]

Personally id stay away from dd. Create the partitions and file systems
manually, and install the boot loader, then rsync the data across. It will
be a lot faster in most cases, as unlike dd you wont be copying unused
space. Something like this should do the job

Rsync -aPH --exclude=/mnt/** / /mnt

I'm assuming you weren't migrating due to a bad disk

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jim Flowers
Sent: 23 June 2009 05:55
To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
Subject: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

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?

Thanks.

--
Jim Flowers <jflowers at ezo.net>

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