Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:32:24 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount Message-ID: <20040920173224.GJ88658@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040920170724.GA9605@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> References: <20040920170724.GA9605@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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--CxDuMX1Cv2n9FQfo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:07:25PM +0200, John Hay wrote: +> The last day I have been trying to setup a geom mirror to boot from. I +> have tried various ways of configuring it, geom mirror on the raw disk +> and also geom mirror inside a slice, also without any slices etc. But +> everytime I could get it to load the kernel and boot up to the point +> where it should mount the root partition and then it would fail and +> give the prompt where you can type the name of the root partition you +> want to mount. Even by typing the partition name at the prompt could +> not get it to work. Then today I noticed that after I got the prompt +> for the root partition a few more geom messages were printed. Then I +> disabled smp by setting kern.smp.disabled=3D"1" and it booted fine. Maybe you're a victim of the problem which was just fixed in -CURRENT. Could you try g_mirror.c rev. 1.27 and g_label.c rev. 1.10? --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd@FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --CxDuMX1Cv2n9FQfo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBTxQoForvXbEpPzQRAvYCAJjhQvq5BKQdr0jXQ86Xj0PTRCysAKCFlrXZ yUMbE0Q9Apky1Xi1izF2sg== =VoRs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CxDuMX1Cv2n9FQfo--
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