Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

From: Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher_at_yandex.ru> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:16:56 +0400 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:19 UTC

On 24.10.2011 1:54, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> NOTE
>  Protection mechanisms in the geom(4) subsystem might prevent boot0cfg
>  from being able to update the MBR on a mounted disk.  Instructions for
>  temporarily disabling these protection mechanisms can be found in the
>  geom(4) manpage. Specifically, do a
> 
>        sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
> 
>  to allow writing to the MBR, and restore it to 0 afterwards.

This is stale message. boot0cfg might work without this.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov