The deleted statement is not true for i386 (probably "no longer" true)
and similar statements are in the BUGS section (rather than the main
body) of the installboot.8 man pages for other archs. The statements
about securelevel requirements in the other archs are often somewhat
different than i386.
At present I only have i386 running so I'm unable to test
alpha
amd64
mvme68k
mvme88k
mvmeppc
sparc
sparc64
If you have any of the above archs running, please see if you can
run installboot at the default securelevel 1 or higher. At least
for i386, it seems this "bug" got fixed somewhere along the lines
but the man page was not updated to reflect reality.
If you let me know what archs pass/fail, I'll post the diffs for
the given man pages.
Index: installboot.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.8,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u installboot.8
--- installboot.8 31 May 2007 19:20:03 -0000 1.28
+++ installboot.8 5 Mar 2010 02:36:52 -0000
@@ -82,14 +82,6 @@
or
.Pa /dev/rwd0c .
.Pp
-Note that you must be in single-user mode or have your kernel in
-insecure mode (see the
-.Xr sysctl 8
-.Va kern.securelevel
-variable or
-.Pa /etc/rc.securelevel )
-to enable access to the raw partition of a mounted disk.
-.Pp
The
.Sq c
partition is always used to represent the
@@ -121,7 +113,6 @@
.Xr boot 8 ,
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr fdisk 8 ,
-.Xr init 8
.Sh CAVEATS
The disklabel
.Va d_type
--
