Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 14:10:20 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Joacim Melin <listor@melin.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Software raid on Sparc64 Message-ID: <20060304131020.GC82798@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <3A086198-3D98-4088-A116-06A4F2E7F35B@melin.org> 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> <3A086198-3D98-4088-A116-06A4F2E7F35B@melin.org>
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:55:43PM +0100, Joacim Melin wrote: > 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" ? Both are used - first the one in defaults is parsed to get the default definitions and if exists the one in /boot is parsed next to overwrite or define additional variables. Just create /boot/loader.conf, if you don't have one yet. > 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? -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de support@fizon.de
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