From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 17:53:50 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 7344737B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:53:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741E143E3B for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tparquet@twcny.rr.com) Received: from twcny.rr.com (syr-24-169-90-105.twcny.rr.com [24.169.90.105]) by mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g9I0rep18428; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:53:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3DAF5B95.9030905@twcny.rr.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:53:41 -0400 From: Tom Parquette User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: First time Vinum user. Setup problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 This is the first time I have tried to do anything with Vinum. This is on a 4.7-RELEASE machine. I'm doing a "minimal" installation over the Internet using the two floppy disk install method. I have several IDE volumes that I am trying to concatenate. After I complete the install I'm editing rc.conf to add the Vinum startup command. At boot, I get the following: vinum: loaded vinum: /dev is mounted read-only not rebuilding /dev/vinum Can't open /dev/vinum/Control read only file system When I look at fstab, "/" indicates it should be read/write. (shamed look because I have been working on the mainframe too long) I can't remember what the command is to display the mount attributes in FreeBSD to see if "/" is really mounted read-only. If I enter vinum from root after the boot is complete, it prompts me with "vinum ->" so I'm pretty sure the klm is loaded. I get some other errors when I try to use the simplified method of creating a 3 disk concatenation. I suspect my symptoms will change once I figure out the /dev messages. Questions: Anybody seen symptoms like this? If so, how do I get around them? A more basic question. Are IDE drives supported by Vinum? The examples I have found use SCSI drives. When I was searching the questions archive I did see some Q&A items that had "ad" drives. I just want to make sure this is even possible with my drives. Please CC me on any replies. I'm not currently subscribed to FreeBSD-Questions. Thanks for any help anybody can offer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message