GEOM and grub

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040406183623.GA17430 at schweikhardt.net>, Jens Schweikhardt writes:
>Hello *,
>
>it appears GEOM prevents grub from mucking with the MBR and/or the next
>15 or so sectors where it wants to write stage1 and/or stage1_5 (grub
>reports failed write attempts).
>
>Is there any way to let grub do its magic (other than installing 4.X
>without geom, patching grub, booting a 4.X fixit CD)? I want rope
>to shoot my foot!!!1! :-)

	sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

will allow you to write to the full disk even if it is open.

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