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Date:      Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:54:49 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must
Message-ID:  <4ADA4B39.2080408@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <4ADA32D2.2020802@videotron.ca>
References:  <4AD8EB8F.9010900@videotron.ca> <4AD8F651.1000001@otenet.gr>	<4AD8FD82.8050306@videotron.ca> <4AD90066.60606@otenet.gr> <4ADA32D2.2020802@videotron.ca>

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PJ wrote:
>
> manual: "it is assumed that a single ATA disk is used, which is
> currently recognized by the system as ad0. It is also assumed that the
> standard FreeBSD partition scheme is used, with /, /var, /usr and /tmp
> file systems, as well as a swap partition."
>
> Now, does that mean that glabel does not work if there are several disks
> on the system... it certainly does not say so nor does it adv ertise
> that this would not work if there are several ATA disks present..
> Previously I had also tried a reboot press 4 with exactly the same
> results....
>
>   

It does say "Example" on top.
And then again:

For this *example* it is assumed that a single ATA disk is used,...

It doesn't say what will not work with it. It simply assumes some
defaults to give a reasonable example.
Now, don't tell me this is ambiguous too...



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