Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:32:26 -0700 From: Lapo Nustrini <lapo@seanet.com> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror load problem on startup Message-ID: <ECF00BC5-5836-42C5-822B-8B7BB16A61AD@seanet.com> In-Reply-To: <428A1559.8060600@gaiahost.coop> References: <F808F590-C71C-4A90-8876-435E927DEBD3@seanet.com> <4289DC41.5020105@gaiahost.coop> <23D17D53-2F04-4E4F-BE7E-643FB3CFD263@seanet.com> <428A1559.8060600@gaiahost.coop>
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On May 17, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > >> The following entry into /boot.config did not work as advertised: >> 2:da(1,a)/boot/loader >> > > Are you sure you put this on the root partition on da0s1a and not > the mirrored root partition? > Well, what do you know... Although I did have the correct entry in da0s1a, this is not the first drive the system looks at when booting. The system I'm working on has a fiber channel external raid which once booted, FreeBSD sees as device da2. The BIOS however sees it as drive 0. Consequently, as da2 still contained an old slice with a bootable partition (da2s1a), all the changes I made to /boot.config on da0s1a were not being read and the boot process was being started from da2s1a, which told the system to mount da0s1a as root. Once I straightened everything out and started from scratch, things seem to be working as expected. Thanks for the help, and apologies for the 'noise'. Lapo
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