From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 9 21:45:45 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 E3DEF106566C for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 21:45:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vk3mrc@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f217.google.com (mail-gx0-f217.google.com [209.85.217.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927FD8FC20 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 21:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk17 with SMTP id 17so3186977gxk.19 for ; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:45:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=bierIxn4lOc8G2zLkU7vZE6WiYtUDdltW8uUIF/D3jo=; b=iwM1p6PLXlCM4aCgoYuF/FKJ41fDgEDm5OFTH0G3dxIfNxpZQbT2DWMWl099mf8xDd grtnHV5+CnGYOxt38K0zFHPTbIXjkaF6f7relBUE1LCyiI6J5whYU11SIoi8AGY34lQK GPl5qxph0T2gKboWE/PC2jQVsvR3RjFrF3SR4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=PGtyNiIYe1BgccaJKNwqqTEQTYtbFhqvMs5AEqUCvbJUTr5bVNhgUArfvsekVTcDZ9 zDybYiVr5EVwhBFVzTPRvp7P2i8BUlh31qmzjZvZe39YFDfQT8ovtx/KtcH4ToscI2AS qJ0fo/xTt9WmACWvD6RZuq9qBQ/ClDJ4qAekU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.158.3 with SMTP id k3mr6897650ybo.218.1249854344692; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:45:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:45:44 +1000 Message-ID: From: Michael Christie To: Tim Judd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gmirror 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: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:45:46 -0000 Yes you are right , I would like to clean off the drives, defalt and clean, then reformat. and reinstall, i did see a post some where on how to do it with the fixit cd, but can not find it now. any idears ? Thanks Mick On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Tim Judd wrote: > On 8/9/09, Michael Christie wrote: > > Hi there all, > > > > I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd > 7.1 > > with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed > to > > do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror a= t > the > > time. When installing Freebsd, on to the drives i see i have AD4 AD6 an= d > AR0 > > on the disk label, i have installed the new free bsd in AD4, and the > system > > would not boot. > > > ar0 is often a cheap onboard RAID device. So cheap as it doesn't even > hide ad4 and ad6 which is also hooked up to the motherboard. > > Installing to ad4 installed it allright. But now the hardware raid > will screw things up a bit. > > Either use gmirror with ad4 and ad6, or use hardware raid on ar0 only. > > > > > > > > > > > > I have come across this before where i have to remove AR0 to default th= e > > drive, i can remember reading a thread on how to use =93fix it=94 and u= sing > the > > live cd. I have google but cannot find it > > > > Please is there any one here that can refresh my memory and tell me how > to > > remove gmirror from my drives so i can do a fresh install,. > > > > > > > > Thanmks > > > > Mick > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >