gmirror issue?

[Marin Atanasov]

Marin Atanasov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was doing some tests under 8.0-RC1 and noticed that when I set-up a 
> root partition with gmirror, after the first reboot with the new 
> mirrored root partition the system is not able to continue the boot 
> process.
>
> The error message that is being printed is this:
>
> pid 63 (swapon), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> ....
> pid 65: (fsck), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> Segmentation fault
> Unknown error; help!
> ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)!
>
>
> The full details about the implementation setup I'm using with 
> gmirror/gvinum are described here:
> http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?p=27010#post27010
>
> Regards,
> Marin
>
Forgot to mention that this error only occurs the first time you boot 
into your 8.0-RC1 system, after when you have set-up root with the new 
mirror filesystem. This does not apply for 7.2

Also the real issue for this is that /etc/fstab contains one new line at 
the end of the file like this:
^@^@^@^@

Removing that line fixes this.

Another thing that I've noticed is that /boot/loader.conf content it 
missing. Needs to be re-created again.

And then you can boot into your mirrored root partition.

Does anyone know why these happen - I mean the strange entry in fstab 
and the empty loader.conf files?

Regards,
Marin