Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect

Thomas Beer mailings at analogon.com
Sat Oct 9 07:34:49 PDT 2004


> 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.

What seems strange between 4.x and 5.x in the fdisk partition
table is, after deleting the slice yet to install FBSD
and create a FBSD slice 4.x simple deletes and creates the
slice, 5.x adds an additional unused "slice".

Cheers Tom


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list