Can't change partition table anymore
Andrey Chernov
ache at nagual.pp.ru
Sun Apr 3 17:23:38 PDT 2005
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:16:46AM -0500, Sam Lawrance wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 03:42 +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Any part of ad0 mounted rw? I think you can't do it when that's the
> case.
ad0s1a mounted to /
(no additional ad0* mounts)
I do it always without any problems in the past.
When I boot to single user and try, the picture remains exact the same
(with / mounted readonly).
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