Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:32:32 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags Message-ID: <67922.1319524352@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:19:34 %2B0400." <4EA654F6.1060309@yandex.ru>
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In message <4EA654F6.1060309@yandex.ru>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" writes: >This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) >--------------enig1B092FDF9A756BE78BC74C01 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On 25.10.2011 10:08, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> The way this used to work before gpart, is that boot0cfg would send >> a GEOM ctl-message to the MBR-geom asking "Would you please write this >> boot code ?" >>=20 >> Since the MBR-geom was the "owner" of the whole disk, and the one >> who had it open for writing, it could obviously do so, if it saw fit, >> and after it had edited its idea about the mbr-partition table into >> that boot-code. >>=20 >> Gpart appearantly does not implement such a ctl message. > >gpart does it in the same way. So why doesn't boot0cfg work ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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