From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 21:15:30 2005 Return-Path: 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 0420016A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:15:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DF343D31 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:15:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 4585 invoked by uid 510); 22 Apr 2005 22:18:32 +0100 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.83/710. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-1.7/5.0):. Processed in 3.918531 secs); 22 Apr 2005 21:18:32 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(-1.7/5.0):. Processed in 3.918531 secs Process 4578) Received: from mail.bathnetworks.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 22 Apr 2005 22:18:28 +0100 From: Robert Slade To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <20050422201144.A12C743D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20050422201144.A12C743D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1114204707.4379.7.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:18:28 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Vinum (Again) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:15:30 -0000 On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 21:11, Timothy Radigan wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, I'm still having trouble with vinum, I got it to load at start, but the > vinum.autostart="YES" in /boot/loader.conf returns a "vinum: no drives > found" message. > > I had the mirrored set up and running before the reboot and the file system > was mounted and everything, I even made sure to issue a "saveconfig" in > vinum to make sure the configuration was written to the drives. > > There is no mention of anything else in the Handbook or in the Complete > FreeBSD chapter on Vinum that describes how to get the configured drives > loaded at boot up. Am I missing something? > > Here is my /etc/vinum.conf: > > drive a device /dev/ad1 > drive b device /dev/ad2 > volume mirror > plex org concat > sd length 38146m drive a > plex org concat > sd length 38146m drive b Timothy, Not sure if this helps but there is a note in the handbook errata: (31 Oct 2004, updated on 12 Nov 2004) The vinum(4) subsystem works on 5.3, but it can cause a system panic at boot time. As a workaround you can add vinum_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf. As an alternative you can also use the new geom(4)-based vinum(4) subsystem. To activate the geom(4)-aware vinum at boot time, add geom_vinum_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf and remove start_vinum="YES" in /etc/rc.conf if it exists. While some uncommon configurations, such as multiple vinum drives on a disk, are not supported, it is generally backward compatible. Note that for the geom(4)-aware vinum, its new userland control program, gvinum, should be used, and it is not yet feature-complete. Mind you, I had a similar problem to you and failed to get it to work. Rob