error boot up from clone drive

[Malcolm Kay]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:18 am, ann kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to test the clone harddrive to boot up the
> system. I got an error
>
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port
> /dev/tty..
>
> but I check the clone harddive. the file is there
> /usr/libexec/getty and /dev/tty.
>
> i am using the following to copy the production drive
> to clone drive
>
> 1/ add the secondary ad2 (clone) in the computer
> 2/ fdisk and parition as same as the primary drive
> (ad0)
> 3/ newfs and mount ad2 eg: /usr1 /var1  ....
> 4/ using tar command to copy file from /var/ to /var1
> eg:  tar cf - var | ( cd var1; tar xvfBp - )
If you do it exactly like this then you have created an extra 
directory level. If you now remount the partition written 
to /var1 at /var; then /var/tmp for example will now be 
at /var/var/tmp.

I think you really needed:
# cd /var
# tar cf - . | ( cd var1; tar xvfBp - )
or something similar

> 5/ shutdown the computer
> 6/ unplug ad0 and plug the IDE1 to IDE0
> 7/ boot up
>
> Thank you for your help

Malcolm