Subject: Re: dd: /dev/rsd0b: Read-only file system
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/09/1999 21:22:08
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:03:56AM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> Nopes, swapctl was checked also. Besides, how could the boot floppy
> enable swap on partition I've labeled _after_ booting the floppy? ;)

'swapon sd0b' after disklabel.
Maybe it's because the partition is marked as 'unused' in the disklabel ?
sd.c will refuse to open a device marked unused, unless it's the raw device.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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