Moving FreeBSD hard drive to new computer

DJOtaku · 01-10-2009, 11:55 AM

The computer in which I had my FreeBSD system got fried. The hard drive still works. I put it into another computer and I get FreeBSD's verion of grub. Once the kernel loads it says it can't find the root partition. I get to a screen that tells me

ufs:asd94-2x (something like that)

and I need to put the right one in. Under a normal boot I can't type there. Under a safe mode boot I can type it in. It then tells me to fsck the drive and that doesn't work because it can't find root.

So what am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

anomie · 01-10-2009, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DJOtaku

The hard drive still works. I put it into another computer and I get FreeBSD's verion of grub. Once the kernel loads it says it can't find the root partition.

Is there another drive in that computer as well? Read here for help identifying where the / filesystem now lives.

DJOtaku · 01-11-2009, 05:50 AM

I ended up having to change fstab from ad0 to ad9

Tinkster · 01-13-2009, 12:36 PM

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t-boot-696341/

And you forgot not to double post ...