On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:06:27PM +0200, Adrien wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I have mounted my new hard drive to /mnt.
You don't mount hard drives, you mount partititons.
Tell us exactly what you did and show command output of fdisk and disklabel.
Without that info, we can only guess.
-Otto
>
> Then I ran :
>
> /usr/mdec/installboot -v /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot sd2
>
> Telling me that /boot will be written at sector 64.
>
> But I'm still booting with my old hdd :(
>
> Tried to enter boot hd1k:/bsd at boot prompt but it's telling me that no
> such file or directory. Seems my drive is good as during the early
> bootstage I have hd0+ (my old hdd) and hd1+ (new hdd).
>
> Can this be due to the fact my filesystem is currently read-only, as I have
> no more space left on my root partition ?
>
>
>
> 2013/5/14 Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net>
>
> > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:08:49AM +0200, Adrien wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have added a second hard drive in my virtual machine, as my root
> > > partition is full. My idea was to add a new disk to the system, then
> > > migrate the root partition to the new disk.
> > >
> > > What I did so far :
> > >
> > > - In recovery, add the second hard drive, fdisk to initialize it, then
> > > disklabel to add a new slice. --> OK
> > >
> > > - Mounted the new partition, copied everything from root to the new
> > > partition, then changed /etc/fstab to the new disk, as well as
> > > /mnt/etc/fstab.
> > >
> > > But after restart, my system can't boot :(
> > >
> > > Any hint about that ?
> > >
> > > I have been able to migrate other partition without any problems, but I
> > > guess I'm missing something for the root partition.
> >
> > man installboot
> >
> > -Otto
