Re: write on device

From: Steve Kargl (sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu)
Date: 01/31/04

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To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@ciam.ru>

    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. 

    -- 
Steve
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