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Date:      Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:09:04 -0500
From:      Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
To:        Joey Mingrone <joey@mingrone.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: fixit and gmirror
Message-ID:  <C74438B0.14718%fsb@thefsb.org>
In-Reply-To: <f5b896260912081400i46c6482aie0fcc865bbff5a1f@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12/8/09 5:00 PM, "Joey Mingrone" <joey@mingrone.org> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until
> the make installkernel step.  The / partition filled up when the new
> kernel was installing.  Since /boot was taking up most of the space I
> moved /boot to /usr/ and create a symlink in / then I did make
> installkernel again and everything completed.  Unfortunately I didn't
> move the necessary bits from /usr/boot back to / before rebooting and
> now the system won't boot.  I'm trying to use the fixit option with
> the livefs cd to repair the system, but I'm having problems with
> gmirror.  The disks are in software raid0.  Can anyone point me in the
> right direction to get /usr and / mounted from the mirror using fixit?

in a recent situation which might be related, i was able to make progress
with fixit only once i burned a 7.1 livefs cd. with 8.0 cds i got nowhere.

with 7.1, it wasn't necessary to boot from cd1 and then insert livefs for
fixit. the livefs disk booted str8 into sysinstall.





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