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 > bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de >
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