GEOM and grub

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:43:05PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
+> 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.

Do I said: THANK YOU! already?:)

I was trying to create new file system, and instead of doing:

	# newfs -O2 /dev/ad0s2

I did:

	# newfs -O2 /dev/ad2

very important data for me were there, but geom_slice saved my ass:

	newfs: /dev/ad2: failed to open disk for writing

:)

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
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