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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:55:43 +0100
From:      Joacim Melin <listor@melin.org>
To:        ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Software raid on Sparc64
Message-ID:  <3A086198-3D98-4088-A116-06A4F2E7F35B@melin.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060303112051.GJ79058@cicely12.cicely.de>
References:  <E74688C1-D308-486F-8E91-6545487DE4D6@melin.org> <20060303080109.GA81736@xor.obsecurity.org> <C013B6D2-541E-4D00-AE45-2040E3AB218D@melin.org> <20060303112051.GJ79058@cicely12.cicely.de>

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Thanks!

However, there is no loader.conf in /boot.  There is one in /boot/ 
defaults though. Is that just a template file for a loader.conf or is  
that the actual one where I put in geom_mirror_load="YES" ?

Joacim

On 3 mar 2006, at 12.20, Bernd Walter wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:06:34AM +0100, Joacim Melin wrote:
>> I created the raid, did a dump from my current root (/dev/ad0) to the
>> second drive /dev/ad1). I then take it that the box would start  
>> from /
>> dev/ad1 so I could put /dev/ad0 into the raid with gmirror but it
>> just rebooted to /dev/ad0 and the raid, /dev/mirror/gm0, was gone.
>
> You have to put the following into /boot/loader.conf:
> geom_mirror_load="YES"
> If you don't then GEOM won't check for gmirror labels.
>
> And of course put the name of the mirrored partition into fstab.
> If you still have ad0 in the fstab on your boot drive, why should
> the system mount anything else?
>
>> I have a system installed on /dev/ad0 already. I found one howto
>> where you could break out of the install phase and do the gmirror
>> thing but since this box (Netra X1) is headless and only operated via
>> a serial connection I haven't found out how to make that happen.
>
> It is much easier to do a normal installation leaving a few sectors
> unpartitioned space at the end of the drive for the later label and
> then migrate.
>
>>> gmirror should just work, BTW.
>
> At least it does here.
>
> -- 
> B.Walter                http://www.bwct.de      http://www.fizon.de
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>




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