I have been working on building a new server (dual Opteron 242, running amd64 of course). I want to use gmirror to get RAID 1 across the two hot-swap SCSI drives. The instructions are easy enough, and I can create the gmirror set without problems.
But then I add this line to /boot/loader.conf:
After that, the next boot will fail with this message immediately after gmirror is loaded:
This happens whether I actually have an active gmirror set (ie mirroring the entire disk) or haven't set one up yet (mirroring only slice 2 on each disk). And at this point my USB keyboard is not functional (even though it was detected earlier) so I can't even test entering something here.
Surely I am not the first one to use gmirror on 7.0-RELEASE -- what am I missing here?
But then I add this line to /boot/loader.conf:
Code:
geom_mirror_load="YES"
After that, the next boot will fail with this message immediately after gmirror is loaded:
Code:
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0.journals1a
Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
eg. ufs:da0s1a
?
This happens whether I actually have an active gmirror set (ie mirroring the entire disk) or haven't set one up yet (mirroring only slice 2 on each disk). And at this point my USB keyboard is not functional (even though it was detected earlier) so I can't even test entering something here.
Surely I am not the first one to use gmirror on 7.0-RELEASE -- what am I missing here?