Re: How to upgrade kernel with gmirror boot?




On Sep 26, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Stefan Bethke wrote:

Am 26.09.2009 um 21:04 schrieb Chris Shenton:

PS: Current "gmirror list" output:

$ gmirror list
Geom name: boot
State: COMPLETE
Components: 1
^^^

There's your problem: your mirror consist of only ad6s1a. You need to add ad4s1a using gmirror insert, or tell your BIOS to boot from the second disk.

That was it, exactly. I've been running with a broken mirror all this time, doh! Added the second disk partition and was able to build and install kernel and boot from it.

Many thanks.

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