Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:45:44 +1000 From: Michael Christie <vk3mrc@gmail.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gmirror Message-ID: <cfae10710908091445s50aed9fbte61bdde9938226b3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90908091207k29df5bcfk89377dbb2d52f73f@mail.gmail.com> References: <cfae10710908090541p778f27acv72ee80d930278a82@mail.gmail.com> <ade45ae90908091207k29df5bcfk89377dbb2d52f73f@mail.gmail.com>
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Yes you are right , I would like to clean off the drives, defalt and clean, then reformat. and reinstall, i did see a post some where on how to do it with the fixit cd, but can not find it now. any idears ? Thanks Mick On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/9/09, Michael Christie <vk3mrc@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there all, > > > > I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd > 7.1 > > with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed > to > > do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror a= t > the > > time. When installing Freebsd, on to the drives i see i have AD4 AD6 an= d > AR0 > > on the disk label, i have installed the new free bsd in AD4, and the > system > > would not boot. > > > ar0 is often a cheap onboard RAID device. So cheap as it doesn't even > hide ad4 and ad6 which is also hooked up to the motherboard. > > Installing to ad4 installed it allright. But now the hardware raid > will screw things up a bit. > > Either use gmirror with ad4 and ad6, or use hardware raid on ar0 only. > > > > > > > > > > > > I have come across this before where i have to remove AR0 to default th= e > > drive, i can remember reading a thread on how to use =93fix it=94 and u= sing > the > > live cd. I have google but cannot find it > > > > Please is there any one here that can refresh my memory and tell me how > to > > remove gmirror from my drives so i can do a fresh install,. > > > > > > > > Thanmks > > > > Mick > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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