problem with boot0cfg on a twe?
Randy Bush
randy at psg.com
Thu Jun 9 14:02:30 GMT 2005
> I looked in my archives (well, it's actually at gmane):
>
> I got this from Doug White:
>
>> This is a erroneous message. The actual problem is:
>>>
>>> 484 boot0cfg NAMI "/dev/twed0"
>>> 484 boot0cfg RET open -1 errno 1 Operation not permitted
>>>
>>> This is a known problem with certain MBR layouts. To work around this
>>> problem, set:
>>>
>>> sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
>>> then try your boot0cfg. There's a protection mechanism that sometimes gets
>>> confused by certain partition table layouts. Flag 16 disables that
>>> protection. I don't recommend running this unless you are explicitly
>>> trying to updating something in a partition table-like area; its very easy
>>> to destroy your system with the flag set!
> Can you try this?
bingo!!!
# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
kern.geom.debugflags: 0 -> 16
# boot0cfg -B -d 1 -s 1 -v twed0
# flag start chs type end chs offset size
1 0x80 0: 1: 1 0xa5 1023:254:63 63 72292437
version=1.0 drive=0x1 mask=0xf ticks=182
options=packet,update,nosetdrv
default_selection=F1 (Slice 1)
now the remaining issue is how to install a boot which goes
to serial only if no crt/kbd installed.
randy
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