Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:21:02 +0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write on device Message-ID: <200401311821.07907@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20040131170630.GA75298@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <401B31DA.9000203@ciam.ru> <20040131170630.GA75298@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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--Boundary-02=_DQ+GAi5Z/emSWqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:06, Steve Kargl wrote: > 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. I think this _really_ is FAQ. Yesterday I had the same trouble and I=20 remembered having heard about it several times but never paid attention. Please include this in the FAQ! Perhaps with explanation what the other debugflags are good for! Thank you, =2DHarry --Boundary-02=_DQ+GAi5Z/emSWqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAG+QDBylq0S4AzzwRAgcTAJ9+CWZy2bLkTCZ/CuKPOngPwXfafACfRs9B IDo5//yWB7jTTEvcSAhTjZ4= =Ii4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_DQ+GAi5Z/emSWqc--
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