From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 13:14:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512A316A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:14:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D4E43D48 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:14:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-246-51.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.246.51]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i99DEnWE013413 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:14:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4167E442.7090302@mac.com> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 09:14:42 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mailings@analogon.com References: <1095.217.228.223.115.1097310516.squirrel@217.228.223.115> In-Reply-To: <1095.217.228.223.115.1097310516.squirrel@217.228.223.115> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:14:55 -0000 Thomas Beer wrote: > I searched the web, archives and asked in some mailing lists > with no satisfactory solution. The situation is an Thinkpad > T42 with a 60GB harddisk, XP as well preinstalled as a service > partition. Repartitioning was unproblematic. If I try to > install any of the 5.x branch on t a free primary partition I > get a warning in sysinstall that a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 > is incorrect. If the installer sees your existing XP and manufacturer service partitions, and they seem OK in terms of size, most likely everything is fine and you can ignore the warning about the geometry being incorrect. -- -Chuck