My FreeBSD 5.2.1 server had a 4.5 GB HDD. I decided to upgrade it with
a larger drive. I installed a new drive on the second IDE channel which
made it ad2, of course, my original drive was ad0. I created a
partition, boot loader and matching slices on the new drive. Then I
copied the old drive to the new drive using tar. Once finished, I
removed the original drive and installed the new one on the primary
channel. When I booted up everything appeared normal, but when the
system starts to mount "/" it gives no error or warning and just drops
to a "Manual mount root specification" prompt. If I type "ufs:ad0s1a"
it boots up and everything is perfect. This is the same slice "/" was
on the old drive as well.
I have tried the following with no success:
Checked /etc/fstab
boot0cfg -v -B ad0
bsdlabel -B ad0s1
tried booting from a cd, going into post install config, fdisk, and set
the partition as bootable, it already was.
Since upgrading the hard disk, I have upgraded the system to 5.5 and
then to 6.2. This system has been working great for over a week now,
just have this boot problem.
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Here is my fstab:
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
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Output from bsdlabel
# bsdlabel ad0s1
# /dev/ad0s1:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 585018626 1048576 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552
b: 1048576 0 swap
c: 586067202 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
don't edit
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Output from boot0cfg
# boot0cfg -v ad0
# flag start chs type end chs offset size
1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63 63 586067202
version=1.0 drive=0x80 mask=0xf ticks=182
options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv
default_selection=F1 (Slice 1)
Thanks,
David
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