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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Laurie Jennings <laurie_jennings_1977@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: System Booting Kernel from Secondary Drive
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:16:00 -0400
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On Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:06:21 am Laurie Jennings via freebsd-net wrote:
> I'm having a problem with a Supermicro system running FreeBSD 9.1. Sometimes 
when I upgrade the kernel in my main drive (ada0), 
> the system boots the kernel from the 2nd drive. It only happens sometimes. 
ada0 is mounted. but the system is running the old kernel. 
> Pulling the 2nd fixed the problem.
> 
> What can cause this to happen? Is it a supermicro problem (it's a 5017R-MTF 
superserver) or is it something with FreeBSD. 

Are you using a software RAID between the two disks?

-- 
John Baldwin