fixit and gmirror

[Tom Worster]

On 12/8/09 5:00 PM, "Joey Mingrone" <joey at mingrone.org> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I was upgrading a system from 7.2 to 8.0 and all was going well until
> the make installkernel step.  The / partition filled up when the new
> kernel was installing.  Since /boot was taking up most of the space I
> moved /boot to /usr/ and create a symlink in / then I did make
> installkernel again and everything completed.  Unfortunately I didn't
> move the necessary bits from /usr/boot back to / before rebooting and
> now the system won't boot.  I'm trying to use the fixit option with
> the livefs cd to repair the system, but I'm having problems with
> gmirror.  The disks are in software raid0.  Can anyone point me in the
> right direction to get /usr and / mounted from the mirror using fixit?

in a recent situation which might be related, i was able to make progress
with fixit only once i burned a 7.1 livefs cd. with 8.0 cds i got nowhere.

with 7.1, it wasn't necessary to boot from cd1 and then insert livefs for
fixit. the livefs disk booted str8 into sysinstall.