gmirror issue?

[Sean C. Farley]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Marin Atanasov wrote:

> 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.
>> 
> 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:
> ^@^@^@^@

While I cannot help with the other issues, I wanted to state I have seen 
this too.  I see these characters when installing via a serial 
connection (using VirtualBox).  They appear after every line I paste 
into the telnet connection (mode character).

Are you doing something similar?

Sean
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