From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 17:32:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F40F16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:32:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from darkness.comp.waw.pl (darkness.comp.waw.pl [195.117.238.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE9143D45 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:32:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@darkness.comp.waw.pl) Received: by darkness.comp.waw.pl (Postfix, from userid 1009) id BD5C4ACC65; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:32:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:32:24 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: John Hay Message-ID: <20040920173224.GJ88658@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20040920170724.GA9605@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CxDuMX1Cv2n9FQfo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040920170724.GA9605@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 i386 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: race between geom and root mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:32:26 -0000 --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--