From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 18:43:37 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 A202437B401; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B20DA43E75; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:43:33 -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 g9I1hQp11309; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3DAF673F.5050006@twcny.rr.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:43:27 -0400 From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> 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 Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, ahl@austclear.com.au Subject: Re: First time Vinum user. Setup problems References: <3DAF5B95.9030905@twcny.rr.com> <20021018010848.GH20173@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK. Thanks to Greg and Tony for clearing up a couple of things. I just learned something about the boot process. Continuing: I recreated my error and this is what I got: vinum Vinum -> concat -n public -v /dev/ad5s1e /dev/ad6s1e /dev/ad7s1e volume public plex name public.p0 org concat drive vinumdrive0 device /dev/ad5s1e Can't create drive vinumdrive0, device /dev/ad5s1e: invalid argument (22) vinum -> Oct 17 21:24:11 Callimachus /kernel: vinum: public.p0 is up Oct 17 21:24:11 Callimachus /kernel: vinum: public is up (I didn't get a command prompt after the last message until I hit enter.) I'm somewhat confused on what should be listed for the -v values. I've seen a couple of different things in the various articles and man pages. I concluded from my reading, possibly incorrectly, that I had to allocate filesystems on the disks for vinum to use. e.g. ad5s1e. TIA for any help. Cheers... Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 17 October 2002 at 20:53:41 -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > >>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 >> > > This always happens when you start Vinum at boot time. It's harmless. > > >>Can't open /dev/vinum/Control read only file system >> > > This will only happen if you have never run Vinum before. It's > particularly harmless. > > >>When I look at fstab, "/" indicates it should be read/write. >> > > That's later. When you start Vinum at boot time, the root file system > is still 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. >> > > Correct. > > >>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. >> > > I don't. This may possibly be a real problem, though I suspect it's a > misunderstanding. > > >>A more basic question. Are IDE drives supported by Vinum? >> > > Yes. > > 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