Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:50:14 +0000 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Geom RAID root report. Message-ID: <1107517814.8749.6.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <16899.23544.491158.188008@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <16896.22046.191392.824042@canoe.dclg.ca> <20050203211705.G47315@carver.gumbysoft.com> <16899.23544.491158.188008@canoe.dclg.ca>
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On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 06:26 -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Doug" == Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> writes: > > Doug> 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. > > Doug> If you manually load the geom_mirror.ko kernel module it > Doug> probably gets useful. Someone pointed out that there's a > Doug> hardwired path in there somewhere so "load" will fail, but if > Doug> you load the module manually then the commands become available. > Doug> I'll have to test it. > > I did that. This is not the case. If you run "gmirror help" when > gmirror is not loaded, it does not load the module and it prints out a > helpful list of things. If you do this on the fixit CD, it prints out > a list of four commands: help, list, load and unload. > > Additionally, I loaded the kernel module manually from > /dist/boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko and this did not change the behaviour > of the command. The problem is that geom is hard coded to look for the userland libraries in /lib. Try symlinking /lib to /dist/lib Gavin
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