Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 19:16:12 +0200 From: Joan Picanyol <lists-freebsd-current@biaix.org> To: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sysinstall & labels/fdisk Message-ID: <20040607171612.GA86565@grummit.biaix.org> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533703FFC22D@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533703FFC22D@mail.sandvine.com>
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* Alex Hoff <ahoff@sandvine.com> [20040607 16:47]: > I have run in to an odd problem that on a freebsd 5.2 current system after > running fdisk and disklabel the initial time on install, i am never allowed > to do it again. > > What I have tried on many different systems, is to run sysinstall, and > either run fdisk or label. After making a change and trying to write the > changes, it will fail. Even if you dont make a change, and just try to write > the current settings to the disk, it will fail. The following error comes up > "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0" (if also tried different types of > disk devices - da/aacd). Ktrace shows the error as "errno 1 Operation not > permitted" GEOM won't let you touch MBR/slices/partitions on used devices. For it to allow footshooting you should set kern.geom.debugflags=16 qvb -- pica
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