vinum software raid as boot drive

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at  9:13:23 +1200, Bruce Harding wrote:
> We are currently trying to set up server with software raid using vinum
> on 5.3.  We plan to use it as a Mirrored root filesystem So far we have
> followed Greg Lehey's instructions from
>
> http://www.daemonnews.org/200002/vinum.html
>
> and the handbook on vinum:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html
>
> note we are only using a single / partition.
>
> ...
>
> We could not find stated exactly anywhere, but we are presuming the
> description file that you use with vinum create becomes
> /etc/vinum.conf

Well, you need to call it that.  The name isn't critical, but it's a
good choice.

> When we execute vinum create it appears to work fine.  The Devices are
> created in /dev/vinum/ and we can do a fsck -n -t ufs /dev/vinum/root
> which outputs no errors
>
> The problem is when we reboot the devices in /dev/vinum are destroyed (
> presume this is normal behaviour ) but they are not created on boot.

Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html.  It
might help; otherwise supply the information asked for there.

Greg
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