From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 17:09:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDDC1065670 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB018FC19 for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 17:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-63-56.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.63.56]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8623C976; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id p36H9MPn002711; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200 From: Polytropon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20110406190922.7daebbb1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20110406144648.GA44550@griffin.gnix.co.uk> References: <20110406144648.GA44550@griffin.gnix.co.uk> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Paul Griffin Subject: Re: GEOM warning in dmesg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:09:25 -0000 On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:46:48 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin 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, ...