Re: GEOM fails to create ad0

From: Lane <lane_at_joeandlane.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:23:32 -0500
On Sat July 24 2004 11:17 am, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Lane wrote:
> > I successfully built a kernel for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #1 on my 8Gig
> > ad2 but when I boot it my 30Gig ad0 does not appear in /dev/
> >
> > I boot 4.10-STABLE on my 30 Gig ad0 and am able to mount ad2, but not
> > vice versa.
> >
> > Does anyone have information on how to trouble-shoot GEOM?
>
> I guess a first question would be: is this a GEOM problem, or a driver
> problem?  Drivers find devices and present them for use by GEOM, which
> then provides storage abstraction and exposes the device via devfs.  Does
> ad0 appear in your dmesg output?  If not, perhaps we're looking at a
> driver problem...
>
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
>
Ok, I guess I kind of figured this out.

I opened the box and switched the drives around.  I hadda reedit fstab, but 
now both drives are visible regardless of which one I boot on.

so ... nevermind ... and thanks to those who responded.
Received on Sat Jul 24 2004 - 19:23:34 UTC

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