On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 06:56:30PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote:
> 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.
>
just to check: installboot(8) says:
Note that you must be in single-user mode or have your
kernel in insecure mode (see the sysctl(8) kern.securelevel
variable or /etc/rc.securelevel) to enable access to the
raw partition of a mounted disk.
that ties in with securelevel(7):
1 Secure mode
- raw disk devices of mounted file systems are read-only
so, securelevel(7) is wrong too?
jmc
