Re: Can't change partition table anymore

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:11:01 +0930
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:58, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:35:15PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > Why have any warnings on anything?
>
> I have nothing serious against the warnings (although find them
> bothering). Why there is no warning "Turn on sysctl ..." in
> fdisk/sysinstall?

I guess there should be (at least in the man page)

> BTW, the trick with kern.geom.debugflags=16 works and I put it permanently
> in my sysctl.conf. Could you please make it ON by default or make a
> warning at least?

Up to phk..

> > > I can't write FreeBSD bootloader because reinstalled Windows overwrite
> > > it with standard MBR and sysinstall don't allow to write bootloader
> > > anymore. The only thing I not try yet in that situation was 'dd' - I
> > > was too lasy to find needed byte.
> >
> > Strange, I can run boot0cfg fine here..
>
> I was trying this variant:
> boot0cfg -s 2 /dev/ad0

Strange that works OK for me.

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