Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:54:23 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore Message-ID: <20050404055423.GA52061@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050403.234113.30984184.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20050404051047.GA50719@nagual.pp.ru> <20050403.232036.35219348.imp@bsdimp.com> <20050404053300.GA51088@nagual.pp.ru> <20050403.234113.30984184.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:41:13PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20050404053300.GA51088@nagual.pp.ru> > Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes: > : On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:20:36PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > One more time with -current machine: > : > : I don't see any testing results from your side, just partition dump. To > : see them you need at least to restore standard MBR and with 'fdisk -u' > : change something not dangerous, like active partition flag, on /-mounted > : disk. The error will shown the end. > > I thought you were trying to use boot0cfg. boot0cfg changes the MBR, > but does so through a safe ioctl. I didn't try to change the > partitioning of the disk itself. If you are doing that, then you're > seeing a design feature, and the changes of it changing are low. This > is a pain. I was trying almost everything, fdisk, sysinstall and boot0cfg (don't trying dd). fdisk & sysinstall not works until kern.geom.debugflags=16. boot0cfg not works until I put freebsd bootloader inplace, it can't set active partition flag with other loaders. Even DOS utilities can. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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