Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:40:14 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Joey Mingrone <joey@mingrone.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixit and gmirror Message-ID: <ade45ae90912081740v37c2f505ycc96c44451773170@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f5b896260912081400i46c6482aie0fcc865bbff5a1f@mail.gmail.com> References: <f5b896260912081400i46c6482aie0fcc865bbff5a1f@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/8/09, 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? > Because the livefs uses a MFSROOT system (allows you to make changes to the ram-based disk image after boot), you have to load kernel modules before the mfsroot is mounted. As an example.. boot cd escape to loader prompt load /boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko load /boot/kernel/smbfs.ko (if needed, i had to load two modules the time i had to use it) boot And I would like to note.. raid0 is striping, gstripe. raid1 is mirroring. I find it hard to recognize raid0 as your boot device. Let me know if you need further help. --Tim
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