freebsd 5.3, gmirror raid 1, PROBLEM

[sara lidgey]

Hi,
 
 The machine won't boot from either drive connected as a master.  I tried them one at a time.  I'm guessing I'll have to boot from a CD but don't know the process.  Any help is appreciated.
 Thanks,
 S.

Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg at webanoide.org> wrote: sara lidgey wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I've been running a server using FreeBSD 5.3 and gmirror to mirror two identical IDE hard drives. Its been running great for over a year. But recently everything went down and when I reboot and put a monitor on it I get the following errors on screen:
>  
>  GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider ad1 disconnected
>  GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: provider mirror/gm0 destroyed
>  GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad0 stopped
>  
>  Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode...  (this is followed by details about the fault)
>  
> These errors are preceded by other related error information that flys by on the screen and I have no way of seeing them again.
>  
>  Does anyone now what steps I should take to figure what is going on and try to recover data or get the machine to boot?
>  


Hi,

Have you tried disconnecting ad1 and booting only with ad0? Maybe one of
the drives just died on you. Try booting the system with one drive at a
time connecting as a master (Primary on IDE1).

Let us know how it goes.

Cheers,
Mikhail.


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