move FreeBSD installation to a different disk partition on same Laptop

[Amr Osman]

Hello,

I have freebsd 14 install on UFS partition on 256 GB GPT disk and I want to move it to a 128 GB UFS partition on another 512GB GPT disk that contains windows 11 and Fedora 39 , I have cloned my system using ‘ dump | restore ‘ but I can’t find a way to make freeBSD boot-loader show the cloned system to boot into it as I have the 2 disks on my laptop and I want to make the 256 disk for data only and the other for multi booting using rEFInd
any help is appreciated
how to create a boot entry for the cloned system?

My Disk structure

ada0
msdos 300MB EFI with rEFInd
UFS 256 GB FREEBSD 14 <— current system

ada1
500GB freeSpace (I deleted that due to bug on windows installer that prevented installation to continue due to multiple EFI present on my laptop)
ada1p2 150 GB NTFS WINDOWS 11
ada1p3 128 GB EXT4 Fedora Linux
ada1p4 100 GB exFat shared Data
ada1p5 100 GB UFS <—- target for clone


Thanks
amr

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Post by Amr Osman
Hello,
I have freebsd 14 install on UFS partition on 256 GB GPT disk and I want
to move it to a 128 GB UFS partition on another 512GB GPT disk that
contains windows 11 and Fedora 39 , I have cloned my system using ‘ dump |
restore ‘ but I can’t find a way to make freeBSD boot-loader show the
cloned system to boot into it as I have the 2 disks on my laptop and I want
to make the 256 disk for data only and the other for multi booting using
rEFInd
any help is appreciated
how to create a boot entry for the cloned system?
My Disk structure
ada0
msdos 300MB EFI with rEFInd
UFS 256 GB FREEBSD 14 <— current system
ada1
500GB freeSpace (I deleted that due to bug on windows installer that
prevented installation to continue due to multiple EFI present on my laptop)
ada1p2 150 GB NTFS WINDOWS 11
ada1p3 128 GB EXT4 Fedora Linux
ada1p4 100 GB exFat shared Data
ada1p5 100 GB UFS <—- target for clone
Thanks
amr

[Rodney W. Grimes]

Hi,
You can use dump and restore for UFS file systems.

He already said he has done that.

Post by Amr Osman
Hello,
I have freebsd 14 install on UFS partition on 256 GB GPT disk and I want to move it to a 128 GB UFS partition on another 512GB GPT disk that contains windows 11 and Fedora 39 , I have cloned my system using ? dump | restore ? but I can?t find a way to make freeBSD boot-loader show the cloned system to boot into it as I have the 2 disks on my laptop and I want to make the 256 disk for data only and the other for multi booting using rEFInd
any help is appreciated
how to create a boot entry for the cloned system?

You can use:
efibootmgr -v
to see the current EFI boot entires, but I think this is not your issue,
and assume you are getting to the FreeBSD loader, but are not sure how
to tell it to boot ada1p5 rather than ada0p2?

When the menu comes up if you hit 3 that can drop you to the "OK " loader prompt.
iirc you can then say:
boot ada1p5:/boot/kernel/kernel

but it has been a long time since I have done this. You may have to
fool around with variables using set loaddev=ada1p5:

Much of this may become automagic if you just remark ada0p2, your
UFS parition on ada0, as something other than FreeBSD UFS so that
the loader.efi finds ada1p5 all on its own as the parition to boot.

Post by Amr Osman
My Disk structure
ada0
msdos 300MB EFI with rEFInd
UFS 256 GB FREEBSD 14 <? current system
ada1
500GB freeSpace (I deleted that due to bug on windows installer that prevented installation to continue due to multiple EFI present on my laptop)
ada1p2 150 GB NTFS WINDOWS 11
ada1p3 128 GB EXT4 Fedora Linux
ada1p4 100 GB exFat shared Data
ada1p5 100 GB UFS <?- target for clone
Thanks
amr

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