From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 30 13:28:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244B516A4D0 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 13:28:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slidgey@yahoo.ca) Received: from web35703.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35703.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14B4143D4C for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 13:28:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from slidgey@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 35305 invoked by uid 60001); 30 May 2006 13:28:20 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=ZS25rqLR5wVV49NHu9xcsOljgiHUpjZ1ZBDHsYcQOyNze6mPSRskDLGszVT5ZHz/1Inxbh/IVVf5ymZWohl9wwC2BF+uBDti2TWt9IXjouKFiPedlLIBpSiD5+cs/fGvbqkSWA563vbU/OGBY8YQEOjwqSv9Nsxg05CY8wLtWlM= ; Message-ID: <20060530132820.35303.qmail@web35703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.222.189.156] by web35703.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 30 May 2006 09:28:20 EDT Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:28:20 -0400 (EDT) From: sara lidgey To: Mikhail Goriachev In-Reply-To: <447C0328.6050001@webanoide.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 5.3, gmirror raid 1, PROBLEM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:28:23 -0000 Hi, The machine won't boot from either drive connected as a master. I tried them one at a time. I'm guessing I'll have to boot from a CD but don't know the process. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, S. Mikhail Goriachev wrote: sara lidgey wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been running a server using FreeBSD 5.3 and gmirror to mirror two identical IDE hard drives. Its been running great for over a year. But recently everything went down and when I reboot and put a monitor on it I get the following errors on screen: > > GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad1 disconnected > GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 destroyed > GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad0 stopped > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode... (this is followed by details about the fault) > > These errors are preceded by other related error information that flys by on the screen and I have no way of seeing them again. > > Does anyone now what steps I should take to figure what is going on and try to recover data or get the machine to boot? > Hi, Have you tried disconnecting ad1 and booting only with ad0? Maybe one of the drives just died on you. Try booting the system with one drive at a time connecting as a master (Primary on IDE1). Let us know how it goes. Cheers, Mikhail. -- Mikhail Goriachev Webanoide Telephone: +61 (0)3 62252501 Mobile Phone: +61 (0)4 38255158 E-Mail: mikhailg@webanoide.org Web: http://www.webanoide.org PGP Key ID: 0x4E148A3B PGP Key Fingerprint: D96B 7C14 79A5 8824 B99D 9562 F50E 2F5D 4E14 8A3B --------------------------------- The best gets better. See why everyone is raving about the All-new Yahoo! Mail.