Copy bootcode to mirror disk?

[Vladislav Prodan]

 --- Original message ---
 From: "perikillo" <perikillo at gmail.com>
 Date: 24 June 2016, 01:58:05
  


> Thanks for your quick answer, I got this error:
> 
> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0
> 
> gpart: /dev/ada0p1: Operation not permitted
> 
> Do I need remove first from mirror or some step before this?

No.

Try to enter in the console: 
sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
And then try again:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0


> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Vladislav Prodan <universite at ukr.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Original message ---
> > From: "perikillo" <perikillo at gmail.com>
> > Date: 23 June 2016, 23:19:27
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi I have a server with 2 hard disk in mirror setup.
> > >
> > > My slices are:
> > >
> > > Code:
> > > root at spam:/boot # gpart show ada1
> > > 34 976773101 ada1 GPT (466G)
> > > 34 6 - free - (3.0K)
> > > 40 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K)
> > > 168 2097152 2 freebsd-ufs (1.0G)
> > > 2097320 16777216 3 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
> > > 18874536 16777216 4 freebsd-ufs (8.0G)
> > > 35651752 1048576 5 freebsd-ufs (512M)
> > > 36700328 1048576 6 freebsd-swap (512M)
> > > 37748904 939024231 - free - (448G)
> > >
> > >
> > > My mirror has ada0 ada1, ada0 var slice fails, them I decide to replace
> > the
> > > whole disk and follow the instructions for that using gpart and backup my
> > > current good disk layout into my new disk.
> > >
> > > gpart backup ada1 | gpart restore -F /dev/ada0
> > >
> > >
> > > This create my slices, I forget each mirror slice and add each slice into
> > > the mirror again.
> > >
> > > Everything working, but looks like I forget to add the bootcode to my new
> > > disk because it won't boot.
> > >
> > > Now is booting from 2nd disk but need to boot from all hard disk, if ada1
> > > fails I will have issues.
> >
> >
> > Install the GPT bootcode into the boot partition:
> >
> > # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0
> >
> > --
> > Vladislav V. Prodan
> > System & Network Administrator
> > support.od.ua
> >
> >
> >
> >
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 Vladislav V. Prodan
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