From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 4 19:31:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FC71065675 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:31:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B024B8FC15 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:31:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.3/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id n64J6rxa017426 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:06:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 166 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7269E89D70 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:06:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 5B9B513D; Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:06:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:06:52 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090704190652.GA44670@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2/9538/Fri Jul 3 16:27:11 2009 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 4A4FA84D.006 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4A4FA84D.006/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 4A4FA84D.006 on shiva.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.007 -> S=0.007 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham Subject: FixIt CD Tool Availability X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:31:13 -0000 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