Re: FreeBSD Bootable Question
- From: "Michael Nguyen" <michaeln@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:34:09 -0800
"Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Michael Nguyen" <michaeln@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
>> What would be the process in FreeBSD?
>
> Relatively similar:
>
> - Partition the new drive with fdisk or sysinstall
> - Label the BIOS partitions with disklabel/bsdlabel
> - Mount the new partitions under /mnt, /mnt/var, /mnt/usr, etc.
> - Untar the files under /mnt
> - Run boot0cfg on the drive to install the boot0 loader
> - Make sure /mnt/etc/fstab is ok
> - Plug the drive into the server
> - Boot
[snip]
Ok, this hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. I'm not sure why it won't boot
but I'm wondering if I'm going about this the wrong way altogether.
So here's the story. I have this load balancer that runs FreeBSD. The
drive failed such that I get input/output errors on the thing and it won't
boot. The drive is in a somewhat working condition, however. I can look at
the partition table and I can read and mount /usr, /var, and /tmp. The root
partition won't mount or can't be read. Now, I have another load balancer
that's similar and live. I can take a dd of the root partition on the new
load balancer and it should work. What's the best way to reconstruct the
old drive assuming that the / partition of the working load balancer would
serve just fine as the root partition of the broken one?
Michael
.
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