undoing gmirror

[Ivan Voras]

Paul Dokas wrote:
> I've got a computer that was running FreeBSD 6.2 on two 250GB drives that
> were configured as a gmirror pair.  However, I've switched computers and
> I want to reinstall this computer with FreeBSD 7.0 beta without gmirror.
> However, after reinstalling and rebooting with a kernel that contains
> GEOM_MIRROR, I find that it is still finding the old gmirror labels and

Run "gmirror clear drive1 drive2..." while GEOM_MIRROR is *not* loaded.

> can't find the real root partition.

Do you mean it mounts root from the mirror? You'll need to modify fstab
(and maybe loader.conf) if you want to switch from a mirrored volume to
single drives.




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