From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 5 15:37:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478BE1065679 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.farley.org (mail.farley.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f0f:20:2::11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 104638FC17 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thor.farley.org (HPooka@thor.farley.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f0f:20:1::5]) by mail.farley.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n95FbDet010063; Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:37:14 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from scf@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:37:13 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" To: Marin Atanasov In-Reply-To: <4AC44BD6.9090308@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <4AC3E432.9010603@gmail.com> <4AC44BD6.9090308@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mail.farley.org Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gmirror issue? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:37:15 -0000 On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Marin Atanasov wrote: > Marin Atanasov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was doing some tests under 8.0-RC1 and noticed that when I set-up a >> root partition with gmirror, after the first reboot with the new >> mirrored root partition the system is not able to continue the boot >> process. >> > Forgot to mention that this error only occurs the first time you boot > into your 8.0-RC1 system, after when you have set-up root with the new > mirror filesystem. This does not apply for 7.2 > > Also the real issue for this is that /etc/fstab contains one new line > at the end of the file like this: > ^@^@^@^@ While I cannot help with the other issues, I wanted to state I have seen this too. I see these characters when installing via a serial connection (using VirtualBox). They appear after every line I paste into the telnet connection (mode character). Are you doing something similar? Sean -- scf@FreeBSD.org