I tried creating the mirror before the install. As the drives are now mirrored, the installer picked up on the face that there are two gm0 nodes - one on each hard drive. I installed onto ada0's gm0 node.
After it reboots, the bootloader stops at the manual prompt. From what I can see that's not dissapeared up the screen, it tried and failed to mount from mirror/gm0s1a with error 19. I had to mount from ada0s1a in order for the boot to get further, but as it's been installed to boot from gm0s1x, it stops after it mounts /. After having checked my partition setup many times at this point, I know for a fact there's a rather large 500MB section free at the end of my hard drives with this partition set up. Is there any reason I can't just install as normal, do a 'gmirror label gm0 ada0', and then do a 'gmirror insert gm0 ada1', before changing my fstab to use mirror/gm0? I can't see why dumping and restoring is necessary, it's just manually doing what gmirror is there for in the first place. Correct me if I'm wrong :) On 9 October 2013 00:11, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Andy Zammy wrote: > > # gpart show ada0s1 >> gpart: No such geom: ada0s1 >> >> By the way, this is after a restart of the machine. >> >> There's nothing to back up, I'm installing a fresh os, so I just install >> on one drive, plug the other in, and start following the handbook >> instructions for this method. So the only >> thing in loader.conf is geom_mirror_load="YES". >> >> I'll rephrase the question: given that the handbook originally wanted me >> to dump from ada0s1 to the mounted mirror/gm0s1 (which was ada1 at the >> time), and I cannot do this, would it be >> enough to dump from mirror/gm0s1 (which is what ada0 is now mounted as), >> to ada1s1 (even though this *should* be the other way around, it's >> equivalent as far as i can see, isn't it?)? >> > > There is not much point in dumping from the mirror to another drive. The > dump/restore is how the single drive is copied to the mirror. > > On a fresh install, use the Shell mode of the installer to set up the > mirror, then install directly to it. There are some instructions on > mountpoints in the bsdinstall man page. This will avoid the lag of waiting > for the second drive to sync. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"