GEOM and grub

[Lukas Ertl]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:

> 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! :-)

Setting kern.geom.debugflags=16 should allow some foot shooting.

cheers,
le

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