migrate system disk

[Dánielisz László]

ok, solved!

dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/ad6 (new hdd) bs=512 count=1024
boot from old hdd
newfs /dev/ad6s1a (new hdd)
mc -> copy /old_hdd excluding /dev /proc /mnt /tmp
boot new hdd




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From: Dánielisz László <laszlo_danielisz at yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 11:34:18 AM
Subject: Re: migrate system disk



Okay, I give up! I try the whole thing like 20 times and still not working.
I'm not able to boot from the new device, it always says:
FreeBSD/i386 boot
Default: 0: ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
No /boot/kernel/kernel

Do you have any other idea?
ps: Yes I set the bootflag in sysinstall -> fdisk and I do pressed 'w' to write 
the changes, it says is ok.



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From: Edward <myself at rdtan.net>
To: Dánielisz László <laszlo_danielisz at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Thu, September 23, 2010 3:37:42 AM
Subject: Re: migrate system disk


> I have an old HDD which should be replaced soon, actually that HDD stands as my 
>
>
> system disk, what is your suggesion, how should I migrate the FreeBSD 8.1 from 


> the old disk to the new one?

I've used to do this a lot for server hardware migration, moving from 1
server to another new server. This blog post recorded what I tried & did :
http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/01/freebsd-backup-and-restore-freebsd.html



Check it out,
Edward.




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