Can't change partition table anymore

[Andrey Chernov]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:38:53AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:20:27AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > Recent -current says "Operation not permitted" for both fdisk and 
> > sysinstall partition changes (under su root). Something wrong happens with 
> > DIOCSMBR. Plain ATA disk ad0. Any ideas?
> 
> When I comment out this two lines in geom_mbr.c, it works again as before:
>                 //if (!(fflag & FWRITE))
>                 //        return (EPERM);
> It means something is wrong with FWRITE flag settings. Device itself is 
> writeable:
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    8,  66 Apr  4 03:33 /dev/ad0

BTW, only fdisk works after that change, sysinstall continue to say
ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad0!
I suspect more FWRITEs hidden somewhere...

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