Re: geom mirror problem

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 10/07/04

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    Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:26:52 +0200
To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>

    On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 08:51:26AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
    +> > +> Anyway here are some more detail. I'm running the latest RELENG_5 with
    +> > +> Pawel's with g_mirror.c v 1.34 and 1.35 from current applied. After
    +> > +> syncing and rebooting I see these messages:
    +> > [...]
    +> >
    +> > Is this 5.3 or 6-CURRENT?
    +>
    +> I guess "latest RELENG_5 with ... g_mirror.c v 1.34 and 1.35 from current"
    +> makes it somewhere past 5.3-beta7, but not current. :-)

    Sorry, I missed that.

    +> > Could you try this patch:
    +> >
    +> > http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gmirror.patch
    +>
    +> I did, but it does not boot, it stops with a mountroot> prompt. Hand
    +> written it looks something like this:
    +>
    +> #######################################################
    +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0 created (id=861616013)
    +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad0 detected
    +> GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad2 detected
    +> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a
    +> setrootbyname failed
    +> Root mount failed: 6
    +> Manual root filesystem specification
    +> ...
    +> mountroot>
    +> #######################################################

    But you still need:

            http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gmirror.2.patch

    Could you try again with both those patches?
    If it works, could you try only with gmirror.2.patch? 

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