From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 22:17:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D74816A403 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:17:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp164.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp164.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91D843D6B for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:17:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from thefsb.org (webmail12.webmail.iad.mlsrvr.com [192.168.1.33]) by relay6.relay.iad.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 4A17D5121A for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:17:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ([192.168.1.71]) (proxying for 24.218.6.159) (Webmail authenticated user fsb@thefsb.org, fsb@thefsb.org); by secure.webmail.us with HTTP; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:17:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48837.192.168.1.71.1160518640.webmail@192.168.1.71> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:17:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tom Worster" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Webmail.us v5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: problems using gmirror X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:17:25 -0000 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