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
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