From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 09:21:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA3D16A4CE for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in.m-online.net (mail-in.m-online.net [62.245.150.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A575543D62 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:21:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from mail.m-online.net (svr14.m-online.net [192.168.3.144]) by svr8.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1AA1D84C; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:21:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de (ppp-62-245-162-166.mnet-online.de [62.245.162.166]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B2C4137E; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:21:09 +0100 (CET) From: Harald Schmalzbauer To: Steve Kargl , Sergey Matveychuk Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 18:21:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <401B31DA.9000203@ciam.ru> <20040131170630.GA75298@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040131170630.GA75298@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Birthday: 06 Oktober 1972 X-Name: Harald Schmalzbauer X-Phone1: +49 (0) 163 555 3237 X-Phone2: +49 (0) 89 18947781 X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-Country: Germany MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_DQ+GAi5Z/emSWqc"; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200401311821.07907@harrymail> cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write on device X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:21:18 -0000 --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--