gmirror failed - segmentation fault.

[sixtydoses]

Hi,

I'm having a hard time trying to set up a gmirror. What I did is I boot up the freshly installed FreeBSD in single user mode and run the following command:

# gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0s1 /dev/ad6s1

The command completed fine, but it failed at the point of loading the gmirror module. Whatever command I entered afterwards, I will be prompted with an error that says 'Device not configured' (refer attachment).

My other failed attempts:

• Reinstalling FreeBSD several times, even on a different hard disk, but same error appeared.
• Updating src to 8.1 stable and recompiled my kernel.
• Creating gmirror against the whole hard disk instead of slice, but no dice.
• Loading gmirror module by running # kldload /boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko instead of # gmirror load. Yes, the module is there.

I had a kernel panic (fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode) once, but sorry, I don't have a screenshot of that though.

Anyway, I have to hard reset the box every time, and my console will be spammed with the following error:

vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error
vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error
vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error

I can't do gmirror using fixit because I don't have a physical access to this box and my attempt to run in fixit mode failed miserably.

Appreciate any advice offered. Thanks.

 

[miwi@]

Sounds like Harddisk or Controller broken ..