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Date:      Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:08:14 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Geom RAID root report.
Message-ID:  <20050204080814.A42372@denninger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050203211705.G47315@carver.gumbysoft.com>; from Doug White on Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:18:23PM -0800
References:  <16896.22046.191392.824042@canoe.dclg.ca> <20050203211705.G47315@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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The easiest way is to chroot into the fixit CD's filesystem and then 
"gmirror load".  That way the hardcoded path is correct and it works.  You
also need to mount devfs.

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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:18:23PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> 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.
> 
> If you manually load the geom_mirror.ko kernel module it probably gets
> useful. Someone pointed out that there's a hardwired path in there
> somewhere so "load" will fail, but if you load the module manually then
> the commands become available.  I'll have to test it.
> 
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