Bug 112267

Summary:	GEOM Mirror documentation doesn't tell you to remove /boot.config
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Jarkko Santala <jake>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Jarkko Santala 2007-04-30 10:00:11 UTC

The GEOM Mirror documentation in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html tells you to do this:

# echo "1:da(1,a)/boot/loader" > /boot.config

But it doesn't instruct you to edit or remove the file after the GEOM installation has completed. If you do not change or remove it, the next time you try to boot with just one disk it will fail.

Comment 1 dfilter service freebsd_committer

2008-01-22 03:44:58 UTC

trhodes     2008-01-22 03:44:54 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom chapter.sgml 
  Log:
  Update the gmirror section:
    1: Pass -O 2 to newfs for UFS2;
    2: Add a dd command to clear the primary disk;
    3: Remove the creation of boot.config, it's unneeded and causes problems;
    4: Describe how to view the status of the mirror build.
  
  PR:     112267 [3]
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.39      +17 -22    doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom/chapter.sgml
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Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2008-01-22 03:45:27 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Revision 1.39 of the GEOM chapter includes many fixes, one being the fix 
for this PR.  Thanks!

Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2008-01-22 03:45:27 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Over to me for any follow up.