gmirror load problem on startup

[Lapo Nustrini]

On May 17, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
>
>> The following entry into /boot.config did not work as advertised:
>> 2:da(1,a)/boot/loader
>>
>
> Are you sure you put this on the root partition on da0s1a and not  
> the mirrored root partition?
>

Well, what do you know...  Although I did have the correct entry in  
da0s1a, this is not the first drive the system looks at when booting.
The system I'm working on has a fiber channel external raid which  
once booted, FreeBSD sees as device da2.
The BIOS however sees it as drive 0.
Consequently, as da2 still contained an old slice with a bootable  
partition (da2s1a), all the changes I made to /boot.config on da0s1a  
were not being read and the boot process was being started from  
da2s1a, which told the system to mount da0s1a as root.
Once I straightened everything out and started from scratch, things  
seem to be working as expected.

Thanks for the help, and apologies for the 'noise'.

Lapo