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# 1  
Old 04-01-2003
boot issues...
hardware on my first FreeBSD server has crashed. i was planning on
swapping the HD into another machine, booting the generic kernel and then
custom tailoring it to the new machine specs.

however, i'm having a problem.

the new machine is using a promise ultra100 card. i don't have any issues
with this, because the drive seems to boot off the card fine, however, i
get into a problem with mounting the partitions.

the drive shows up as ad6

i've tried manually booting by entering 'mount ufs:/dev/ad6'

however that's not working. i figured that i wasn't telling it what slice
to use... so i tried adding s1a, etc after ad6, but still no luck. i
guess, i don't know the exact bootslice. 'lsdev' doesn't seem to help me
too much either.

is there anyway to salvage this system, or do i need to do a reinstall?
# 2  
Old 04-01-2003
wait is this a brand new hard drive that you are using? because if it is then you need to mkfs on it.
# 3  
Old 04-01-2003
no... it's the HD from the old machine that no longer works.
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