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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!hgatenl.hobby.nl!compi.hobby.nl!plm From: plm@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Subject: How to install booteasy. (posted before, please help me!) X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 X-Attribution: PLM Sender: plm@compi.hobby.nl Lines: 39 Organization: My Unorganized Home Message-ID: <87wx75pvaq.fsf@compi.hobby.nl> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 08:43:57 GMT Hello, I posted this question a few days before and I'm stuck until I know how to do this. Somebody please help me. I have 2 SCSI disks, each with a FreeBSD slice and also with other partitions on them. Currently I have my root filesystem on the first drive, but I want to move it to the second drive. I am having trouble with disklabel however: I managed to create a new BSD slice on the 2nd disk using fdisk (quite some tricky calculating to do for that) and make partitions in the slice with disklabel. Then I mount /dev/sd1a and copy the contents of the current root fs to it. Then I issue 'disklabel -B sd1'. This should make the new root partitions bootable, not? However after rebooting and choosing 2nd disk with the boot manager I some error message. Now I try to put also the bootmanager (easyboot) on the 2nd disk. I only manage to do this using the FreeBSD boot diskette (what is the normal way to do this?) Then when I choose 2nd disk from the boot manager I get to choose one of the slices on the 2nd disk. When I choose F4 (4th slice is the BSD slice) I just get a question mark and get the boot manager again, i.e. the FreeBSD slice is not accepted by the boot manager somehow. Can someone tell me how I can accomplish this, or (even better) point me to some documentation that describes disklabel and the boot manager in more length than the man pages do? Thanks in advance, -- ______________________________________________________________________ Peter Mutsaers | Bunnik (Ut), | "Quod licet bovis, plm@compi.hobby.nl | the Netherlands | non licet Jovi."