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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:32:43 -0400
From:      Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>
To:        Jared Ring <jared@little-miracles.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gmirror RAID-1: rebuilding freezes machine
Message-ID:  <4509BC6B.3080501@protected-networks.net>
In-Reply-To: <4509BB15.3020105@little-miracles.org>
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Jared Ring wrote:
> I traced the problem back to BIOS booting off ad0 instead of ad1.
> Because ad0 was still a perfectly functioning drive BIOS didnt complain
> about booting off it. Once the kernel started and gmirror loaded it
> proceeded to use ad1, but the kernel was loaded from ad0, which was the
> old, broken one.

Ah .. that'll do it ..

> I noticed my first partition does start at offset 0 though, is this
> going to come and bite me in the future?

My guess is 'yes, it will eventually' .. better to fix it now before it
does and you've forgotten about it,

	Michael
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