aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Tue Oct 25 06:19:43 UTC 2011


On 25.10.2011 10:08, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The way this used to work before gpart, is that boot0cfg would send
> a GEOM ctl-message to the MBR-geom asking "Would you please write this
> boot code ?"
> 
> Since the MBR-geom was the "owner" of the whole disk, and the one
> who had it open for writing, it could obviously do so, if  it saw fit,
> and after it had edited its idea about the mbr-partition table into
> that boot-code.
> 
> Gpart appearantly does not implement such a ctl message.

gpart does it in the same way.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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