Re: root on gmirror and disk failure...

2007-09-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Modulok wrote: > The provider, /dev/mirror/gm0, is not being created. This is > significant for obvious reasons: no mirror means no provider which > means no root. The module /boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko is loaded, as I > have manually loaded it via

root on gmirror and disk failure...

2007-09-01 Thread Modulok
BACKGROUND I'm experimenting with gmirror on the root partition on a test system running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. I have two physical disks on the same IDE header (master and slave). This was setup following the tutorial in the handbook. The system boots and mounts root from /dev/mirror/gm0s1a as expec