System Booting Kernel from Secondary Drive

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 10 19:37:37 UTC 2014


On Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:06:21 am Laurie Jennings via freebsd-net wrote:
> I'm having a problem with a Supermicro system running FreeBSD 9.1. Sometimes 
when I upgrade the kernel in my main drive (ada0), 
> the system boots the kernel from the 2nd drive. It only happens sometimes. 
ada0 is mounted. but the system is running the old kernel. 
> Pulling the 2nd fixed the problem.
> 
> What can cause this to happen? Is it a supermicro problem (it's a 5017R-MTF 
superserver) or is it something with FreeBSD. 

Are you using a software RAID between the two disks?

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John Baldwin


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