vinum root issue on 5.3-Beta2

[Chad Ziccardi]

I'm working on setting up a mirrored root filesystem as explained in:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html

I've gotten it to boot then noticed something broken about it on my setup.

More info on my setup is at the bottom of this message.

If it boots to the vinum partition it does not properly load vinum.
How to explain that better..
booting normal as described in the handbook (loader.conf settings)
it appears to only read ad0s1h for data, thus never fully comes up.

I get among the various warnings (a slice is missing!)

vinum: incompatible sector sizes.  m-root.p1 has 0, m-root has 512.  Ignored.
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/vinum/m-root
vinum -> ld
D vinumdrive0           State: up       /dev/ad0s1h     A: 0/1023 MB (0%)
D vinumdrive1           State: referenced       unknown A: 0/0 MB
since it can't see vinumdrive1 the plex and subdisks are faulty.




However booting to the a slice without using vinum (removed from loader.conf)
booted up on ad0s1a(or ad0s1h)(half of the mirror)

then doing vinum start after logging in I get:

vinum: reading configuration from /dev/ad2s1h
vinum: updating configuration from /dev/ad0s1h
Aug 31 05:55:06  kernel: vinum: reading configuration from /dev/ad2s1h
Aug 31 05:55:06  kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/ad0s1h

vinum -> ld
D vinumdrive1           State: up       /dev/ad2s1h     A: 0/1023 MB (0%)
D vinumdrive0           State: up       /dev/ad0s1h     A: 0/1023 MB (0%)



Is this a known issue? Is there something wrong with how I've set it up?




info from dmesg:
----------------
FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 #0: Tue Aug 31 01:21:06 UTC 2004
     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARBITOR
...
ad0: 157066MB <HDS722516VLAT80/V34OA63A> [319120/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
ATAPI_RESET time = 34920us
ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
ad2: 157066MB <HDS722516VLAT80/V34OA63A> [319120/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <CD-ROM CDU701/1.0f> at ata1-slave PIO4



disklabels:
-----------
# /dev/ad0s1:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
   a:  2096871      281    4.2BSD     2048 16384 11761
   b:  4999480 316669952      swap
   c: 321669432        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't 
edit
   d: 16777216  2097152    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
   e:  4194304 18874368    4.2BSD        0     0     0
   f: 188743680 23068672    4.2BSD        0     0     0
   g: 104857600 211812352    4.2BSD        0     0     0
   h:  2097136       16     vinum

# /dev/ad2s1:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
   a:  2096871      281    4.2BSD     2048 16384 11761
   b:  4999480 316669952      swap
   c: 321669432        0    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't 
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   d: 16777216  2097152    4.2BSD     2048 16384 28552
   e:  4194304 18874368    4.2BSD        0     0     0
   f: 188743680 23068672    4.2BSD        0     0     0
   g: 104857600 211812352    4.2BSD        0     0     0
   h:  2097136       16     vinum



-- 
Chad Ziccardi
cz at digitalfreaks.org