Help With Custom Disk Layout For New Install

[Adrian Wontroba]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:53:31PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

>  ... gmirror fails silently (i.e. nothing exists in /dev/mirror). ...

I can't speak for the rest of your post but have you got the following
in /boot/loader.conf?

geom_mirror_load="YES"

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Adrian Wontroba
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