On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:07:25PM +0200, John Hay wrote: +> The last day I have been trying to setup a geom mirror to boot from. I +> have tried various ways of configuring it, geom mirror on the raw disk +> and also geom mirror inside a slice, also without any slices etc. But +> everytime I could get it to load the kernel and boot up to the point +> where it should mount the root partition and then it would fail and +> give the prompt where you can type the name of the root partition you +> want to mount. Even by typing the partition name at the prompt could +> not get it to work. Then today I noticed that after I got the prompt +> for the root partition a few more geom messages were printed. Then I +> disabled smp by setting kern.smp.disabled="1" and it booted fine. Maybe you're a victim of the problem which was just fixed in -CURRENT. Could you try g_mirror.c rev. 1.27 and g_label.c rev. 1.10? -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.FreeBSD.org pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://garage.freebsd.pl FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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