Hi
I have a fully working installation of FreeBSD 8-STABLE (gpt root on ZFS). I want to clone this system onto another drive so I can put it in a second machine. This is what I did:
Using the standard root-on-ZFS technique, I:
All this went really well. But when I try to boot from the new ad12 drive, it just blocks immediately after the 'F1 FreeBSD' boot partition prompt.
Does anyone have any ideas I can try? Did I miss something out?
Many thanks
sim
I have a fully working installation of FreeBSD 8-STABLE (gpt root on ZFS). I want to clone this system onto another drive so I can put it in a second machine. This is what I did:
Using the standard root-on-ZFS technique, I:
- created an MBR on the new drive,
- set up partitions using gpart (freebsd-zfs: ad12s1a; freebsd-swap ad12s1b),
- dd'd the gptbootzfs file to ad12s1 and ad12s1a as usual
- created a simple pool in ad12s1a (zsystem)
- copied my working pool (zroot) to the new one: zfs send -R zroot@freeze | zfs recv -Fdv zsystem
- checked that the new zsystem filesystems were present using zfs list.
All this went really well. But when I try to boot from the new ad12 drive, it just blocks immediately after the 'F1 FreeBSD' boot partition prompt.
Does anyone have any ideas I can try? Did I miss something out?
Many thanks
sim