Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:45:17 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't change partition table anymore Message-ID: <200504041145.25265.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050404020924.GA48010@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20050403232027.GA42574@nagual.pp.ru> <200504041107.42147.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050404020924.GA48010@nagual.pp.ru>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:39, Andrey Chernov wrote: > > Make sure you set it back to 0 after you're done. > > Thanx, I'll try, but why fdisk/sysinstall don't do that automatically for > me as it was before for many years? It's not fdisk or sysinstalls job to second guess you. Altering the MBR while you have a partition mounted is potentially quite dangerous. The reason it was possible in the past was because there was no protection against this kind of thing. > F.e. I can't even change active boot partition. What is foot-shooting > prevention in that case? I see nothing but stupidity. Use boot0cfg and the FreeBSD bootloader instead? It disallows writing the MBR full stop - it does not try and work out what is changing. Arguably it should be more intelligent, but.. patches accepted ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCUKM95ZPcIHs/zowRAnUGAJwPxX66MDivvfFcBDCWdAa9jF9nNACeLCaC uNJ0ah3tunJoBythVLa3hso= =KsQH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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