At first I had 3 MBR primary partitions and two extended, (grub Windows 8 FreeBSD Ubuntu and Haiku) on freeBSD I did a
Code:
dump -0Laf /backup/mydump /
. Then reinstalled FBSD and choose GPT with 4 partitions, the FBSD boot manager that takes like 64kb. root /, swap and an extra partition that takes the other half of the HD. Reinstalled FBSD and did
Code:
restore -ruf /backup/mydump.dump
. It failed because I thought I was located in the root but I was located in the
. Then I rebooted into single user mode and made a
mount it on
and I mounted
into some different folder I think it was called rescue since it was empty I couldn't create a folder into
. Then I executed
Code:
restore -ruf /rescue/mydump.dump
and I got the node not found alert, but it finished without any other alert. Then I restart the machine and the boot manager couldn't find a boot partition so I manually specified /dev/ada0p2 and it booted, the after I reboot I got the same message so I checked the fstab file and change the only line to
and added a new line for the swap partition
.
So far everything is working fine but I am worried about the node not found message and the fact that I change the partition scheme from MBR to GPT maybe there are some other configuration files that had the previous scheme.
That my friends is the resume of my actions ; )
Max21 instructions might help in the future since I already made a backup with dump and wiped out the machine for the new installation.