From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 22 15:24:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C9C37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:24:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879DD43EDA for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 15:24:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9DE795194A; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:54:27 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:54:27 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Hari Bhaskaran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q on vinum HOWTO org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored Message-ID: <20021222232427.GD95354@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021222123141.A5009@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021222123141.A5009@spider.netmails.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 22 December 2002 at 12:31:41 -0600, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to follow the HOWTO at > http://org.netbase.org/vinum-mirrored.html > It says under "Fresh installation of FreeBSD" > section, second line, > > "Then install the bootmanager only for the first disk" > > why is that? I am trying to follow "Case 2" (explained in > the para just above the refered section). Is it a typo? > Did he mean only for case 1? > > If bootmanager is not installed for the second disk, > how will it boot if the first one fails? Correct, you need a bootstrap for each disk from which you might want to boot. 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message