On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 20:53:41 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > This is the first time I have tried to do anything with Vinum. > This is on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. > I'm doing a "minimal" installation over the Internet using the two > floppy disk install method. > > I have several IDE volumes that I am trying to concatenate. > After I complete the install I'm editing rc.conf to add the Vinum > startup command. > > At boot, I get the following: > vinum: loaded > vinum: /dev is mounted read-only not rebuilding /dev/vinum
This always happens when you start Vinum at boot time. It's harmless. > Can't open /dev/vinum/Control read only file system This will only happen if you have never run Vinum before. It's particularly harmless. > When I look at fstab, "/" indicates it should be read/write. That's later. When you start Vinum at boot time, the root file system is still mounted read only. > If I enter vinum from root after the boot is complete, it prompts me > with "vinum ->" so I'm pretty sure the klm is loaded. Correct. > I get some other errors when I try to use the simplified method of > creating a 3 disk concatenation. I suspect my symptoms will change > once I figure out the /dev messages. I don't. This may possibly be a real problem, though I suspect it's a misunderstanding. > A more basic question. Are IDE drives supported by Vinum? Yes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
