freebsd 5.3, gmirror raid 1, PROBLEM

[Mikhail Goriachev]

sara lidgey wrote:
> Hi,
>  
>  The machine won't boot from either drive connected as a master.  I tried them one at a time.  I'm guessing I'll have to boot from a CD but don't know the process.  Any help is appreciated.
>  Thanks,
>  S.
> 


Hmmm... I can only suggest using a livecd, for instance freesbie. Once
you boot it, fsck(8) file systems on those hard drives. Maybe it's just
some consistency problem.

If you have a spare freebsd box, then you could try mounting those
drives on it and poke around. Or, you could even chuck those drives into
another box (one at a time), boot it up and see what happens (assuming
your kernel is pretty much generic). That is just to rule out busted
components on current box. There must be a proper and better way for
doing this though.


Cheers,
Mikhail.


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