Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 20:20:04 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <woozle@woozle.net> Cc: joerg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootstrapping vinum root Message-ID: <20030804105004.GM95375@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030804140437.W12950@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20030804140437.W12950@woozle.rinet.ru>
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--tpv1bmAa6gXA34MD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 4 August 2003 at 14:26:53 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > Well, colleagues, I'm stuck a bit. > > I tried many different ways to setup system with vinum root (the only > reference I found yet besides old "bootstrapping vinum" article is Joerg's > commit message: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/cvs-all_2003/msg01225.h= tml > > I failed. I have 4-stable system set up at ad0, and tried to set up pair = of > drives for new system at ad2 and ad3 (actually, they will run as ad0 and = ad2 on > target system). What I did: > > - fdisk -BI ad2; fdisk -BI ad3 > - disklabel -Brw auto ad2s1; disklabel -Brw auto ad3s1 > - create ad[23]s1d for root, 128M+265s in size, type vinum > - start vinum and create mroot mirror volume > - dump'n'restored root partition there > - tune new fstab and /boot/loader.conf according to Joerg's comments. > > Alas, all I have is BTX registers dump. > > I did also check that if I create ad2s1a instead of vinum partition, I ca= n boot > from that prepaired disk. > > BTW, Joerg did promised a bit of documentation for vinum roots, but I fai= led > to find it... > > Any suggestions? Thanks a lot in advance. I haven't done anything in this area on release 4; as you say, J=F6rg did that. However, there's a problem with overwritten bootstraps which will probably bite you under 4.x as well. Try changing the 265 sectors to 281 and see if that fixes the problem. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --tpv1bmAa6gXA34MD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/LjpcIubykFB6QiMRAmFxAKCibhs/wO1B7ajUDhEfmRHrl/5crgCfZKjk 7TSoGdEo0JGwcuMLbWzyIeQ= =sIgk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tpv1bmAa6gXA34MD--
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