GEOM warning in dmesg
Polytropon
freebsd at edvax.de
Wed Apr 6 17:09:25 UTC 2011
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:46:48 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie at 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
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