Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:55:17 -0400 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GEOM warning in dmesg Message-ID: <20110406135517.20f90d49@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20110406190922.7daebbb1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20110406144648.GA44550@griffin.gnix.co.uk> <20110406190922.7daebbb1.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> articulated: > 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. I had a disk two years ago that caused FBSD to spew the same nonsense. I downloaded FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.org/>, created a CD then proceeded to removed all of the partition information from the disk. I then recreated the partition format I wanted, rebooted and formatted the drive. Now, when I installed FBSD there were no error messages. I don't know if that will help you or not. -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war. Napoleon
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