geom_mirror problem.

[Vincent Blondel]

Pawel,

Thanks for your answer but what can I do to let my system boot correctly
because once I get this message, the boot process stop.

> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:08:53PM +0200, Vincent Blondel wrote:
>>
>> Hello BSD lover's
>>
>> I get a development server using Soft Mirror I installed by following
>> this
>> guide
>>
>>   http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html
>>
>> This is working fine since a few months without any problem.
>>
>> Today, I am interested to use Soft Mirror on my FreeBSD desktop system
>> but
>> with just one partition ( /dev/ad4s3 <--> /dev/ad7s3 ).
>>
>> So at the end of my FreeBSD CD installation, I tried to set a mirror
>> label
>> on this partition but this seems to be a problem because I receive as
>> error message 'Operation not permitted'.
>>
>> So I decided to reboot the machine with a Freesbie CD Live System.
>> Everything goes well place a label on ad4s3 but when I try to start my
>> FreeBSD desktop system I get this error message :
>>
>>   GEOM_MIRROR : Device gm0 created
>>   GEOM_MIRROR : Device gm0 : provider ad4s3 detected
>>   GEOM_MIRROR : Device gm0 : provider ad4s3 created
>>   GEOM_MIRROR : Device gm0 : provider mirror/gm0 launched
>>   WARNING: Expected raw offset 0, found 37142280
>>   Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s3
>>
>> So, can somebody help me to solve this problem.
>
> This is not an error, but a warning. This is not geom_mirror problem, but
> geom_bsdlabel issue. And it's harmless:)
>
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> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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>