gmirror RAID-1: rebuilding freezes machine

Michael Butler imb at protected-networks.net
Thu Sep 14 13:32:50 PDT 2006


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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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