Vinum + AXP + 5.4..

[Bernd Walter]

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.

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