Re: Can't change partition table anymore

From: Andrey Chernov <ache_at_nagual.pp.ru>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 04:23:31 +0400
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:16:46AM -0500, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 03:42 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:38:53AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:20:27AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > > > Recent -current says "Operation not permitted" for both fdisk and 
> > > > sysinstall partition changes (under su root). Something wrong happens with 
> > > > DIOCSMBR. Plain ATA disk ad0. Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > When I comment out this two lines in geom_mbr.c, it works again as before:
> > >                 //if (!(fflag & FWRITE))
> > >                 //        return (EPERM);
> > > It means something is wrong with FWRITE flag settings. Device itself is 
> > > writeable:
> > > crw-r-----  1 root  operator    8,  66 Apr  4 03:33 /dev/ad0
> > 
> > BTW, only fdisk works after that change, sysinstall continue to say
> > ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!
> > I suspect more FWRITEs hidden somewhere...
> 
> Any part of ad0 mounted rw? I think you can't do it when that's the
> case.

ad0s1a mounted to /
(no additional ad0* mounts)
I do it always without any problems in the past.
When I boot to single user and try, the picture remains exact the same
(with / mounted readonly).

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