Vinum + AXP + 5.4..

[Angus MacGyver]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:03 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 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.
> 

AH...

I will take a look..


Thanks.
AM

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Angus MacGyver <macgyver at calibre-solutions.co.uk>