On Saturday 31 January 2004 18:06, 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. I think this _really_ is FAQ. Yesterday I had the same trouble and I remembered having heard about it several times but never paid attention. Please include this in the FAQ! Perhaps with explanation what the other debugflags are good for! Thank you, -Harry
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