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Date:      Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:06:30 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: write on device
Message-ID:  <20040131170630.GA75298@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <401B31DA.9000203@ciam.ru>
References:  <401B31DA.9000203@ciam.ru>

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On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:40:58AM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> It's looks like I can't write on devices into boot area on 5.x?
> Even when I'm root. Why?
> I can't create a partition, can't change MBR (I'm working with grub).
> 
> Is there a workaround?

This is becoming a FAQ.  The author of GEOM has given GEOM
the useful feature of disabling writes to active devices.
You can set the kern.geom.debugflags sysctl in /boot/loader.conf
to 16 which allows footshooting.

-- 
Steve



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