From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 11:50:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E8716A4CF for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:50:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2605943D41 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:50:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy.york.ac.uk [144.32.226.160]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j14BoFKU024205; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:50:15 GMT Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j14BoFtB009176; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:50:15 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j14BoEEB009175; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:50:14 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: David Gilbert In-Reply-To: <16899.23544.491158.188008@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <16896.22046.191392.824042@canoe.dclg.ca> <20050203211705.G47315@carver.gumbysoft.com> <16899.23544.491158.188008@canoe.dclg.ca> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:50:14 +0000 Message-Id: <1107517814.8749.6.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom RAID root report. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:50:24 -0000 On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 06:26 -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Doug" == Doug White writes: > > Doug> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, David Gilbert wrote: > >> Gmirror on the fix-it CD appears to be impotent. It appears to > >> have only 'help', 'list', 'load' and 'unload' as commands. Not > >> useful. > > Doug> If you manually load the geom_mirror.ko kernel module it > Doug> probably gets useful. Someone pointed out that there's a > Doug> hardwired path in there somewhere so "load" will fail, but if > Doug> you load the module manually then the commands become available. > Doug> I'll have to test it. > > I did that. This is not the case. If you run "gmirror help" when > gmirror is not loaded, it does not load the module and it prints out a > helpful list of things. If you do this on the fixit CD, it prints out > a list of four commands: help, list, load and unload. > > Additionally, I loaded the kernel module manually from > /dist/boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko and this did not change the behaviour > of the command. The problem is that geom is hard coded to look for the userland libraries in /lib. Try symlinking /lib to /dist/lib Gavin