Yes you are right , I would like to clean off the drives, defalt and clean, then reformat. and reinstall, i did see a post some where on how to do it with the fixit cd, but can not find it now. any idears ?
Thanks Mick On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Tim Judd <taj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/9/09, Michael Christie <vk3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there all, > > > > I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd > 7.1 > > with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed > to > > do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror at > the > > time. When installing Freebsd, on to the drives i see i have AD4 AD6 and > AR0 > > on the disk label, i have installed the new free bsd in AD4, and the > system > > would not boot. > > > ar0 is often a cheap onboard RAID device. So cheap as it doesn't even > hide ad4 and ad6 which is also hooked up to the motherboard. > > Installing to ad4 installed it allright. But now the hardware raid > will screw things up a bit. > > Either use gmirror with ad4 and ad6, or use hardware raid on ar0 only. > > > > > > > > > > > > I have come across this before where i have to remove AR0 to default the > > drive, i can remember reading a thread on how to use “fix it” and using > the > > live cd. I have google but cannot find it > > > > Please is there any one here that can refresh my memory and tell me how > to > > remove gmirror from my drives so i can do a fresh install,. > > > > > > > > Thanmks > > > > Mick > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
