On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:41:05PM +1000, Michael Christie wrote: > Hi there all, > > I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd 7.1 > with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed to > do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror at the > time. When installing Freebsd, on to the drives i see i have AD4 AD6 and AR0 > on the disk label, i have installed the new free bsd in AD4, and the system > would not boot. > > I have come across this before where i have to remove AR0 to default the > drive, i can remember reading a thread on how to use “fix it” and using the > live cd. I have google but cannot find it > > Please is there any one here that can refresh my memory and tell me how to > remove gmirror from my drives so i can do a fresh install,.
I don't think you have to do a new install. Just use 'boot0cfg -s 1 ad4' to make the next boot start from da4. Then rebuild ad6: 'gmirror rebuild ar0 ad6'. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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