Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:43:00 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 geom.4 Message-ID: <20719.1112910180@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:40:46 PDT." <4255A8DE.8020509@root.org>
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In message <4255A8DE.8020509@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: >I intended to add code to the grub port to automatically set this sysctl >to the right value to allow it to write to the MBR since it currently >fails in an obscure way. I never got around to it. Perhaps it makes >sense to provide an easy way to write to the MBR so we aren't >cut/pasting code to every MBR-type program that does the same thing >(check the sysctl, if already set, do nothing, otherwise set and then >clear the flag after doing the MBR write). Please see my other email about what needs to be done. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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