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Date:      Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:18:57 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        Brent Hostetler <brenthostetler@gmail.com>
Cc:        pjd@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems setting up gmirror of live system
Message-ID:  <43BE6E41.1060509@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <aadbc3580601052207r1f505f8bj6563f3887656dd13@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <aadbc3580601031530i2458cca7r622b55a6b1d6036@mail.gmail.com>	<20060104201149.GC17950@garage.freebsd.pl> <aadbc3580601052207r1f505f8bj6563f3887656dd13@mail.gmail.com>

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Brent Hostetler wrote:

>On 1/4/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:30:08PM -0800, Brent Hostetler wrote:
>>+>
>>+> partition to mount to /usr/home. I believe I can stack the Geom
>>+> classes correct so
>>+>
>>+> this should be possible?
>>
>>Yes, sure.
>>    
>>
>
>How exactly do I do this?
>
>Assume I have:
>
>ad0s2 + ad2s2   ==== /dev/mirror/disk0
>ad4s1 + ad6s1   ==== /dev/mirror/disk1
>ad8s1 + ad10s1 ==== /dev/mirror/disk2
>
>disk0 is already has a filesystem which is mounted /usr/home..
>
>Is it just a matter of:
>
># umount /usr/home
># gconcat label -v bigdisk /dev/mirror/disk0 /dev/mirror/disk1 /dev/mirror/disk2
># growfs /dev/concat/bigdisk
># mount /dev/concat/bigdisk /usr/home
># cp -p /mnt/etc/fstab /mnt/etc/fstab.orig
># sed -e 's/dev\/mirror\/disk0/dev\/concat\/bigdisk/g'
></mnt/etc/fstab.orig >/mnt/etc/fstab
>
>
>  
>
>>The output of 2.7 and 2.8 is different, because those disks aren't
>>really equal in size. This has nothing to do with gmirror.
>>Try:
>>
>>        # diskinfo -v /dev/ad[46]
>>    
>>
>
>They were the same. The error was mine.
>
>I have been able to get the mirror working properly! Yeah!
>
>** BIG PROBLEM ** However, I need to move the mirrored disks from the
>test machine to the server and this is causing bootstrap problems. The
>drives on the test machine are connected to a pci ide card. On the
>actual server they will be connected to the onboard ide controller.
>Tried the switch and it gets to the BTX loader but halts real quick.
>
>How do I resolve this issue? Is this just on config file issue or
>something with MBR?
>
>Since when done, the machine will be using the onboard ide, two ide
>pci cards and a serial ide pci card will I be having issues with the
>drive order getting screwy???
>  
>


You might just have to reload the mbr.  Read man boot0cfg for more details..

Eric



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