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 -- ScottReceived on Tue Mar 30 2004 - 23:57:50 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:49 UTC