Booting a disk with gmirror and gjournal

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Tue Jun 3 09:33:28 UTC 2008


Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to setup a system with one gjournal'ed partition mirrored on 
> two disks using FreeBSD 6.3, and it does not work...
> 
> Here is what I have routinely done so far:
> 
> one partition, no journal, mirrored disks => I can have a working system.
> one partition, no mirror, journal => everything is ok
> 
> but as soon as I try combine both gjournal and gmirror, I get stuck: 
> once the system boots I get stuck at the F1 prompt and things do go any 
> further.
> 
> 
> Could anybody help me with this ?

Can you discribe it more closely?
Do you want to have 2 physical disks in gmirror with only 1 slice 
covering whole disk with only 1 partition (gjournaled) used as root (/) 
of your system?

Miroslav Lachman


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