Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:59:46 -0800 From: Scott Sewall <scott@redlinenetworks.com> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write on device Message-ID: <406A9692.4080501@redlinenetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <20040131170630.GA75298@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <401B31DA.9000203@ciam.ru> <20040131170630.GA75298@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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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.
>
>
No need to modify loader.conf. You can simply execute the following command:
sysctl -w kern.geom.debugflags=16
-- Scott
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