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From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: boot and boot0cfg problem 
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> On 30.03.2010 12:05, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > so it seems that someone is preventing changes to the partition table!
> > btw, this problem was not present in older boot0 (1.0) where the active
> > partition flag is ignored.
> 
> You can change active partition via gpart(8).
> 
Hi Andrey,
I'm sorry, I've reread the manual, and can't find the write magic.
btw, boot0cfg does call geom but something seems to be broken.

cheers,
	danny