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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