Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:16:27 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must Message-ID: <20091017011627.60c4a53a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4AD8FD82.8050306@videotron.ca> References: <4AD8EB8F.9010900@videotron.ca> <4AD8F651.1000001@otenet.gr> <4AD8FD82.8050306@videotron.ca>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:10:58 -0400, PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> wrote: > Ok, but that is exactly what I did. Exactly that and that is what is in > the manual. And I can read and I did check and recheck my input for > typos. But, I did get error messages! > # glabel label rootfs/dev/ad12s1a Exactly? I think a whitespace (after rootfs) is missing. > glabel: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad12s1a: Operation not permitted > and the message was the same for all partitions! And you ran this command in single user mode with no partitions mounted, except / in ro mode? (You can use "mount -v" to check.) > Since the web gurus were saying that the error messages were not > important and to ignore them, [...] I cannot imagine this. It looks like an error message. Such as if "Cannto save file" wouldn't suggest you that the file has been successfully save, woult it? > [...] I tried that and continued through with > the boot and changed the fstab entries and rebooted and the boot failed. Of course. Obviously, the label has NOT being written, so the reference in /etc/fstab leads to failure. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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