Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:09:04 -0500 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Joey Mingrone <joey@mingrone.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fixit and gmirror Message-ID: <C74438B0.14718%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <f5b896260912081400i46c6482aie0fcc865bbff5a1f@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/8/09 5:00 PM, "Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org> wrote: > Hello: > > I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until > the make installkernel step. The / partition filled up when the new > kernel was installing. Since /boot was taking up most of the space I > moved /boot to /usr/ and create a symlink in / then I did make > installkernel again and everything completed. Unfortunately I didn't > move the necessary bits from /usr/boot back to / before rebooting and > now the system won't boot. I'm trying to use the fixit option with > the livefs cd to repair the system, but I'm having problems with > gmirror. The disks are in software raid0. Can anyone point me in the > right direction to get /usr and / mounted from the mirror using fixit? in a recent situation which might be related, i was able to make progress with fixit only once i burned a 7.1 livefs cd. with 8.0 cds i got nowhere. with 7.1, it wasn't necessary to boot from cd1 and then insert livefs for fixit. the livefs disk booted str8 into sysinstall.
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