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Subject: Booting vinum.
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So the release notes say that you can boot from a vinum partition.
They don't give any details (raid 5 support, etc) and neither does any
of the documentation that I've managed to track down.

So ... I'm using a hard disk to boot while I put vinum on all the
drives in the server ... blissfully figuring that something will
magically work.

Would someone point me at the right documentation for booting from
vinum ... or at least at some hints?

Dave.

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