i386/83425: fdisk can't read or write disklabel

[Björn König]

The following reply was made to PR i386/83425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Jan Slaets <jan at janot.ifsc.usp.br>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/83425: fdisk can't read or write disklabel
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:38:59 +0200

 Hello Jan,
 
 there is a mechanism that protects the MBR from being overwritten 
 accidentally. Execute
 
    sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16
 
 and try again.
 
 Björn