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Date:      Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:57:28 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FDISK cannot write
Message-ID:  <431F3818.4050507@cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <431EEB35.5020207@esiee.fr>
References:  <431EEB35.5020207@esiee.fr>

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Frank Bonnet wrote:

> I'm trying to add a partition to an existing disk at 5.4-R
> on a HP XW 4200 (SATA)
> 
> FDSIK fail with an error message "cannot write ..."
> 
> The "bizarre" thing is I have installed this machine
> from CDROM and partitionning the disk was OK ...

Set kern.geom.debugflags=16 with sysctl to allow writing the MBR 
temporarily.

Björn



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