[SOLVED] Migrate harddisk with FreeBSD into new machine

[C.M. Burns]

> At 01:26 PM 8/14/2008, C.M. Burns wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have a problem. A faulty machine was running freeBSD with a two 
>> harddisk software raid.
>> now these two disks should be put into a new machine, but of course 
>> it won't boot because it is new hardware.
>> Kernel just reports: cannot mount root device from /dev/mirror/gm0s1a 
>> (or sth like this).
>>
>> question is now, how can i add the correct driver into the initial 
>> ramdisk (if there is such a thing on bsd) so the machine finds the 
>> two drives?
>> second question: how can i afterwards remove the software mirror and 
>> only use one harddisk from that moment on?
>>
>> any help is very welcom, as i have no idea about bsd. i am a linux guy ;)
>>
>> thanks!
>
>

problem solved. used a freebsd 7.0 CD to upgrade the kernel. this made 
the scsi disks available to the system.
after that i used the livefs CD and removed the geom_mirror from 
loader.conf and set the root device to da0s1a. et voila, everything works!

thanks for your help!