Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:17:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problems using gmirror Message-ID: <48837.192.168.1.71.1160518640.webmail@192.168.1.71>
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i've been trying to use the procedure described at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html i followed it to the letter. i'm using the install cd from from the freebsd 6.1-release iso. my primary disk is on sata-0 which is /dev/ad4 on my dell poweredge 400sc. in the label editor i used the "auto defauts" giving 5 slices for / swap /tmp /var /usr. everything goes according to plan for page 1 of that article. but the machine does not reboot. it fails while: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a because that device doesn't exist. the computer hangs at the mountroot> prompt because of the keboard bug in 6.1-release. when i reboot in safe mode and enter ? to list geom managed disk devices i see only mirror mirror/gm0s1c mirror/gm0s1 mirror/gm0 and all the ad4 devices. in other words: mirror/gm0s1a and the other three slices are not listed in /dev/mirror. i've been through the install process about 5 times now carefully checking everything and i can see from ls /dev/mirror that the command: gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4 generates only the /dev/mirror/gm0s1c in /dev/mirrior, the other four slices are not there. any suggestions? thanks tom
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