vinum primary master drive inconsistencies

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 27 May 2004 at 13:12:34 -0400, dave wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got vinum running on 5.2.1 doing raid1 on two ide drives. I was doing a
> installworld in single user mode when it crashed. I was unable to use any
> commands because of missing libraries not installed. I unplugged the master
> drive, therew in a spare drive as master then did a minimum 5.2.1 install on
> that. Then mounted my slave drive on the tempoary master drive and copied
> the libraries. Once that was done i unplugged the temp drive and let the
> secondary master drive boot which it did, went in to single user mode and
> completed the make installworld and mergemaster. Now my secondary master
> drive has the correct data, the primary does not. When i boot i'm getting:
> vinum: home.p0.s0 is stale by force
> vinum: usr.p0.s0 is stale by force
> I'm assuming this means it can't find ad0 which is because i haven't
> reconnected it. My problem is both drives are bootable, but if i plug in the
> primary master drive fbsd will boot off that and it won't work. I need to be
> able to boot off the secondary master drive then copy the data from the
> secondary master drive to the now inconsistent primary master drive, then
> reboot and all should be normal.
> Not sure how to go about this, any advice appreciated.

The standard FAQ: http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html

Greg
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