Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:06:52 +0200 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FixIt CD Tool Availability Message-ID: <20090704190652.GA44670@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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Drew Tomlinson wrote: > The command 'gmirror label root ad8a ad6a' does not return an error but > no device is created in /dev/mirror > > The command 'zpool create data raid1z ad14d ad12d ad8d ad6d' gives me > an error about the ZFS library being unavailable. > > Are these tools supposed to work when using the Fix It CD? If not, does > 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso have these tools? One can load kernel modules from the fixit cdrom, but as far as i remember this requires some manipulations. What i do is, from the fixit prompt: chroot /mnt2 to go to the full system available on the cdrom under /mnt2. But then required things are missing, so i do further: mount -t devfs devfs /dev because access to /dev is frequently required, and for commodity set -o emacs (to have shell history and editing) export PAGER=more (to be able to access man pages) After that one has a more or less standard environment. Sometimes one needs a writable filesystem, for example for accessing internet (dhclient, resolv.conf, etc.) mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp does that. It would be nice to have a shell script on the fixit cdrom doing similar things automatically when one accesses fixit. In your case i suspect appropriate kernel modules were not loaded and commands failed silently. -- Michel TALON
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