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Subject: Re: vinum setup
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>Sorry, I'm having a miserable time trying to get vinum working on my
>>amd64 system.  Vinum tells me that it can't load the kernel ("vinum:
>>Kernel module not available: No such file or directory").  Gvinum
>>simply refuses to take any commands at all.  I tried looking at
>>/boot/kernel, naturally didn't find any such module, so I wanted to
>>see about building one, but I can't get "device vinum" to pass
>>config's purview.
>>
>>Does vinum work on amd64's?
> 
> 
> Shouldn't that be gvinum?
when I wrote that, I didn't understand the difference between vinum and 
gvinum.  I do now, but I tell you, gvinum sure as heck needs 
documentation.  Fixing the resetconfig command would be a really good 
thing, too.