On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:10:58 -0400, PJ <af.gour...@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, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"