Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:25:09 +0800 From: Ruel Luchavez <ruel.freebsd@gmail.com> To: Adam Vandemore <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RAID 1 failure Message-ID: <ee9dc2b40903181825v6fabbecagc38e1ea03e26e5dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49C13A57.9080203@gmail.com> References: <ee9dc2b40903172305j729ce6d1k16ffc3a051dcc8a6@mail.gmail.com> <49C13A57.9080203@gmail.com>
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hello Adam Unfortunately, when I boot the machine I can't see the boot menu, Unlike with my other machine running version 7.0 ang 6.0 FreeBSD there is a boot menu but with this 7.1 reelase no boot menu showed up. Any idea? Thanks... On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Adam Vandemore <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote: > Ruel Luchavez wrote: > >> Hello.. >> >> Hope there is some one out here can fix my problem. >> >> I have fresh installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my IBM system X3100 server (2 160GB >> hard drive), I have decided to do a RAID1 by using the steps >> on the handbook : >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html >> >> as the site stated you have to enable the loading of the geom_mirror.ko >> kernel module during the system intialization >> by putting >> >> #echo 'geom_mirror_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf >> >> UNFORTUNATELY, I forgot that steps now I'm facing a problem how to correct >> it where in after I restart the machine the system refuse to boot, I'm >> stack on this loading: >> >> F1 FreeBSD >> F5 Drive 1 >> >> Default:F1 >> >> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 >> Consoles: Internal video/keyboard >> Bios drive C: is disk 0 >> Bios drive D: is disk 1 >> Bios 631KB/2094592KB available memory >> >> FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 >> (root@logan.case.buffalo.edu Thu Jan 1 09:55:10 UTC 2009) >> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.cof >> >> >> >> Do you have any idea how to do it? >> Hope there is.. >> > You can load gmirror from the loader prompt as well. Option 6 from the > boot menu I believe. ? will give list of exact commands. You should enter > something like this: > > load geom_mirror > boot > > then edit loader.conf after system is up. > > > -- > Adam Vandemore > Systems Administrator > IMED Mobility > (605) 498-1610 > >
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