Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@gnix.co.uk> Subject: Re: GEOM warning in dmesg Message-ID: <20110406190922.7daebbb1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110406144648.GA44550@griffin.gnix.co.uk> References: <20110406144648.GA44550@griffin.gnix.co.uk>
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:46:48 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@gnix.co.uk> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I have just installed FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE amd64 onto my new > Lenovo ThinkCentre and i'm dual-booting FreeBSD with Windows > & which was preinstalled. > > When the system boots i see the message shown below in dmesg > which relates to the partitions on the FreeBSD slice. So far > i have not experienced any problems with using the system and > it does boot into the OS ok. but i don't know if there's a > problem here that i need to fix or if it's a warning i can > ignore because i don't know what it means. i am hoping someone > can help me and explain what it is. The message indicates that there is a discrepancy between reported values (BIOS vs. disk) about the disk geometry. > Here is the text: > > GEOM: ad8: partition 4 does not start on a track boundary. > GEOM: ad8: partition 4 does not end on a track boundary. > GEOM: ad8: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary. > GEOM: ad8: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary. > GEOM: ad8: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary. > GEOM: ad8: partition 2 does not end on a track boundary. > GEOM: ad8: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary. > GEOM: ad8: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary. Using some google, there are the following things you could read: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9105 http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9524 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-March/004830.html http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/testing-out-freebsd-8-0-rc1/ There are explainations and solutions. I hope it will help. But as I said, I'm quite sure you can ignore the messages as they do not affect the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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