Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:03:54 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Angus MacGyver <macgyver@calibre-solutions.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vinum + AXP + 5.4.. Message-ID: <20050718100353.GH53035@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <1121674263.5897.5.camel@falcon.calibre-solutions.co.uk> References: <1121674263.5897.5.camel@falcon.calibre-solutions.co.uk>
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:11:03AM +0100, Angus MacGyver wrote: > OK.. > > Prolly a "Silly question" here.. > I wish to install 5.4 on a LX164 mobo, as I have done in the past.... > > Just one thing, I now have two 18GB hdd's (scsi) and want to use vinum. > The manual states that I cannot install onto a vinum disk, fine.... > It also says to get around that you install first, using swap as the > first partition.... trouble is, when i try that from sysinstall it sys > that I will break things as the AXP architecture cannot understand > booting from anything that the first lump on the drive... > > So, resorting to my friend google, there isn't exactly a wealth of info > coming back to help.. > > Anyone got any pointers ? (or even a howto?) Use gmirror - it stores bookkeeping data at the end, so it shouldn't be a problem with booting. The overall state with vinum/gvinum under FreeBSD-5 and up is not very good. In fact I keep two machine - one an alpha - on very old OS versions just because they have big vinum partitions. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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