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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:11:40 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Patrick Bihan-Faou <freebsd-fs@mindstep.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting a disk with gmirror and gjournal
Message-ID:  <20080603081140.GA62607@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <4844F171.3000801@mindstep.com>
References:  <4844F171.3000801@mindstep.com>

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:23:29AM +0200, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to setup a system with one gjournal'ed partition mirrored on 
> two disks using FreeBSD 6.3, and it does not work...
>
> Here is what I have routinely done so far:
>
> one partition, no journal, mirrored disks => I can have a working system.
> one partition, no mirror, journal => everything is ok
>
> but as soon as I try combine both gjournal and gmirror, I get stuck: once 
> the system boots I get stuck at the F1 prompt and things do go any further.
>
>
> Could anybody help me with this ?
>
> Patrick.

As far as I know, FreeBSD's bootloader doesn't understand how to handle
such things.

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