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Subject: Re: Booting vinum.
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David Gilbert wrote:
> 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?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html

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